Hey everybody I am more tired today than yesterday but I am happier.
So the first time around I said more tired and then I said happy hour even though I was comparing In
both cases.
Do you know when to use more and when to use your.
What about if I said you are the smartest students you are the most interesting student.
When should I use most when should I use.
Yes.
So as native speakers of English you know we just kind of know what sounds the best but it's important
to know the exact rule that the college board uses so that you don't fall for any of their tricks.
All right let's take a look.
The first thing you want to note is that you use comparatives when comparing two things.
So if I said you are smarter than her I'm comparing you to her.
Two things are two people in this case.
So I should use the comparative and use the superlative when comparing three or more things.
You are the smartest student here and of course I'm implying that you are be compared to many different
students so there must be three or four or 30 students here but you sir or ma'am are the smartest.
So that's when you use a comparative versus the politics.
But how do you make the comparative and it's ability form.
Well let's start with the comparatives smart of course becomes smarter.
Easy becomes easier.
Common becomes.
Is it common to know it's more common and interesting becomes more interesting.
So what's the rule.
One easy thing to see is that when the word is one syllable smart you add smarter when a word is three
syllables or more such as interesting.
You put more in front of it more interesting but one there's two syllables.
What kind of split easy is two syllables he added and it has easy.
You add the common is also two syllables common.
But I have more in front of it more common.
So what could the rule be.
The answer is simple.
If you see a y on the end of your two syllable a..
Easy.
Funny happy silly.
Then you add to it.
Funnier happier.
Sulia but if it doesn't have that why just put more in front of it.
Simple as that.
For superlatives we take smart and it becomes the smartest easy becomes the easiest.
Common becomes the most common and interesting becomes the most interesting.
So overall it's the same rule right.
When you had the two syllables that don't end in.
He put most in front of it.
When you have three syllables you put most in front of it.
When it's one syllable you put e s t on it and if you have a y on there you put t on there.
But of course all of them have the the the in front them it's a very straightforward
and because English is so awesome we have a few exceptions here for comparatives.
Usually I wouldn't put the in front of a comp..
I wouldn't say the bigger I would just say bigger Edie's than in front of a superlative the biggest.
But when I'm using an expression such as the bigger they are the holiday for one I don't want to say
the more this occurs the more that occurs.
That's one occasion when I would use the in front of the comp..
The more you study the better you will get.
I can also use the for comparisons in this case.
If I said of the two brothers He is the taller one he is the taller brother of the two.
So when I specify of two I can use the to say that this guy is the total of the two.
Not really tested very much but I just wanted to throw that out there.
You're not caught off guard.
In the case if this kind of question ever does occur.