How to Form Correct Comparative Adjectives

One way to describe nouns (people, objects, animals, etc.) is by comparing them to something else.

A mistake that both native speakers and non-native speakers make is using incorrectly formed comparative adjectives.

His cat is more large than my dog.

His cat is larger than my dog.

So what makes the first example wrong and the second right? There are a few rules that explain this, from this Q&A:

1 For adjectives that are just one syllable, add -er to the end (this explains the above example).
2 For two-syllable adjectives not ending in -y and all three-or-more-syllable adjectives, use the form “more + adjective.”
3 For two-syllable adjectives ending in -y, change the -y to -i and add -er.

These simple rules should make it fairly easy to differentiate when you should add -er and when you should use “more + adjective.”

Here are a few more examples:

This house is more exciting than ever.

This house is excitinger than ever.

The view of the mountains is prettier here.

The view is more pretty.

With these rules and examples as a starting point it should be easier than ever to decide when to use “more” and when to add -er.

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