Sentence examples for The comparatives from inspiring English sources
noun
A construction showing a relative quality, in English usually formed by adding more or appending -er. For example, the comparative of green is greener; of evil, more evil.
The comparatives of the second stanza form a landscape – old hills, newly swollen streams – but why are these features specifically English?
Adjectives have neuter singulars marked by -t, plurals marked by a vowel (-e or -a), and weak forms used after determiners, usually identical in form with the plurals; the comparatives are marked by r and superlatives by the cluster st.
In 48, when the comparatives contain a differential phrase like 三公分 san-gongfen 'three centimeter', this effect disappears18.
Rearrange the order of the words so that the comparatives 'more' - two times here - are after 'the'the
Quine is alluding to Rudolf Carnap's (1950) generalization that scientists replace qualitative terms (tall) with comparatives (taller than) and then replace the comparatives with quantitative terms (being n millimeters in height).
Food & Wine dropped the comparative approach.
Or the comparative economic impact data?
"That's really the comparative measure.
The comparative productivity of organic agriculture.
Felsenstein, J. Phylogenies and the comparative method.
The comparative arthropathy of fluoroquinolones in dogs.
