Double comparison is taboo in Standard English except for fun: Your cooking is more tastier than my mothers. I can see more better with my new glasses. These illustrate the classic double comparative, with the periphrastic more or most used to intensify an adjective or adverb already inflected for the comparative or superlative. A belt-and-suspenders usage, this is a once-Standard but now unacceptable construction (like the double negative) that illustrates yet again our penchant for hyperbole. Shakespeare (the most unkindest cut of all) and other Renaissance writers used double comparison to add vigor, enthusiasm, and emphasis, and so do young children and other unwary speakers of Nonstandard English today. Double comparison in grammar is a case where one uses both more and letters er. An example could be using more cooler instead of cooler. Comparatives are used to relate two items or objects. They are indicated using the word more of sometimes by adding the letters er at the end of a word for example cooler is the comparative form of cool. How to Spot Comparative Adjectives Adjectives are one of the eight parts of speech along with nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, interjections and conjunctions. An adjective describes a noun or pronoun and a comparative adjective does exactly what it says--compares two nouns. Instructions 1 Use comparative adjectives when you are comparing two nouns. Usually you need to use the word than in the sentence. The following is an example of comparing two nouns, My yard is larger than your yard. 2 Prepare to follow certain rules when using comparative adjectives. When using a one-syllable adjective, add er to it. An example is This box is fuller than that box. 3 Look at adjectives ending in y. To make them a comparative adjective change the y to i and add er. Examples include happy, early and merry as shown in the sentence, He is happier (or earlier or merrier) than I am. 4 Add more to the adjective if it has more than one syllable. For example, My coat is more expensive than her coat. 5 Notice how the adjective ends. If the adjective already ends in e than you only need to add an r to it, for example large becomes larger and safe becomes safer. 6 Check one-syllable adjectives that end in a consonant with a vowel prior to it. Here, double the consonant before adding er. Some examples are thin becomes thinner, big becomes bigger and hot becomes hotter. 7 Observe the adjectives that are exceptions to the rule. These include bad which becomes worse, far which becomes either farther or further, and good which becomes better.
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