Here is a list of errors that ESL students often make in the use of adjectives. Incorrect: She is more stronger than her sister. Correct: She is stronger than her sister. Avoid double comparatives. Adjectives of one syllable usually form their comparatives by adding –er to the positive. Longer adjectives take more. Incorrect: Bombay is ....
The "Practise your" is a series of workbooks designed to give intermediate students practice in particular areas of English. Each book features - contextualised practice to make it easy to see the meanings which determine the choice of a particular form, varied practice, with a mixture of exercise types focusing on both form and meaning, graded practice, from items with simple rules to more complex language uses, a pull-out answer key and material suitable for self-study or classroom use. Practise your Comparatives is the only of its kind providing thorough practice in the many and often confusing varieties of comparative and superlative structures. Real facts are used to make realistic and interesting contexts, and personalisation exercises help students to relate structures to their own experience. WITH KEY
Generative analyses of comparatives traditionally include two construction specific ellipsis operations, Comparative Deletion and Comparative Ellipsis. Drawing from a wide array of new data, the present monograph develops a novel, directly semantically interpretable analysis of comparatives which does not require reference to designated deletion processes.
