Adjectivecomparative (comparative more comparative, superlative most comparative) Positive comparative Comparative more comparative Superlative most comparative
NounWikipedia has an article on: ComparativeSingular comparative Plural comparatives comparative (plural comparatives)
From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License. In grammar, the comparative is the form of an adjective or adverb which denotes the degree or grade by which a person, thing, or other entity has a property or quality greater or less in extent than that of another, and is used in this context with a subordinating conjunction, such as than, as...as, etc. . If three or more items are being compared, the corresponding superlative needs to be used instead. StructureThe structure of a comparative in English consists normally of the positive form of the adjective or adverb, plus the suffix -er, or (in the case of polysyllabic words borrowed from foreign languages) the modifier "more" (or "less"/ "fewer") before the adjective or adverb. The form is usually completed by "than" and the noun which is being compared, e.g. "he is taller than his father is", or "the village is less picturesque than the town nearby". "Than" is used as a subordinating conjunction to introduce the second element of a comparative sentence while the first element expresses the difference ("our new house is larger than the old one"). There is less water in Saudi Arabia than there is in the United States; but however, there are fewer people in Canada than there are in California. From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License What college courses would I need to take for a career in comparative psychology? Q. What college courses will earn me a career in comparative psychology? What specific jobs could I hold, say, not in a large city? Thanks in advance! Asked by SmallTownGirl - Sat Feb 28 20:16:23 2009 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments A. You need to get a doctorate in psychology for this. And then, this is a rarely needed specialty and the only places with enough need for a person doing this would be in very large cities. Answered by Chuckles - Sat Feb 28 20:23:03 2009 How to write a good comparative essay for IB? Q. i need tips to writing a comparative essay...for IB. Asked by 123four - Sun Jun 21 09:24:20 2009 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments A. I wouldn't recommend having other people write essays for you, because you need to write a comparative essay for your IB final. Well, some tips would be to really focus on the prompt, and don't really go off track because the word limit is relatively small. Another thing to be careful about is in-text quotations- don't stick in long quotes from the book/passage just to take up space or because you have nothing to say (I always did...) because the IB examiners mark you down if you are clearly trying to use up the word limit with this. I think its really good if you discuss techinques used in the texts, and compare how similar techniques are used for a common purpose (theme) or something like that. Good luck! Answered by 2525smiley - Mon Jun 22 10:55:58 2009 Why is it harder to identify comparative advantages in trade in services than in trade in goods?
Q. Why is the identification of comparative advantages in relation to trade in services regarded as more difficult to do, if compared to trade in goods? I don't get it. What makes it so hard to say that a country is better in a certain kind of service than other countries? Asked by Buergenthal - Tue Oct 24 10:05:06 2006 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments A. Many goods are homogeneous (sometimes even standardized). Services are usually not. With goods, you can precisely determine requirements. When you buy, for example, rolled steel, you can easily verify whether it meets certain grade or not. So you can directly compare steel made in Germany with steel made in Brazil and make purchasing decisions on price, provided that the steel meets your requirements. With services, no such grading exists in most cases. You may know that outsourcing technical support to India will cost you less than outsourcing it to Ireland. But even within India (or Ireland), there will be considerable variation in prices; some companies, for example, will require their employees to pass a region-neutral diction… [cont.] Answered by NC - Tue Oct 24 14:10:52 2006 From Yahoo Answer Search: "comparative"  news.google.com Columbia Missourian ... Nation magazine covering broad issues of social justice, civil rights law, and comparative issues of class and culture in the US, France and Britain. ... news.google.com TIME "Given the shifting nature of China's comparative advantage, Asian countries may best re-orientate their economies towards sectors that cannot be easily ... and more » news.google.com Telegraph.co.uk A resurgent DSGi and tough comparative figures from last year led to sales at the rival Comet chain falling by 3.9pc on a like-for-like basis over Christmas ... and more » From Google News Search: "comparative"  i.zdnet.com 365px x 550px | 32.00kB [source page] Whenever the subject turns here to comparative effectiveness principled conservatives howl Picture from eHealth Initiative story on comparative effectiveness It s socialist It s  shlrc.mq.edu.au 684px x 685px | 136.70kB [source page] 361 12 The eplot for mydata andrew The comparative eplots for mydata andrew and the male speakers from the english database Conclusions From Yahoo Image Search: "comparative"  scotusblog.com Erin Miller Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:01:26 GM That court determined that Smith had failed to establish a legally significant disparity under either the absolute or . comparative. disparity tests ; however, it then gave him the benefit of the doubt on underrepresentation to address ...  casacamisas.wordpress.com brookeshelf Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:35:04 GM Jeffrey and Eleanor came out of Primary (our church's version of Sunday School) eager to show off the pictures they had made: Eleanor's is on top, if you couldn't guess from the pink. She says it's a picture of her and Jesus holding ...  shearlingsplowed.blogspot.com condor Sat, 16 Jan 2010 03:17:00 GM A principal reason that many doctors don't currently have the best possible research on effective patient care is that there's no broad incentive to conduct head-to-head ( . comparative. ) research. New drugs and new devices only have to ... From Google Blog Search: "comparative" |
