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Ahava_yin Posted 19 years ago
Vocabulary

cruel

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00The word "cruel" has various forms of comparative and superlative degrees. It seems that crueler, crueller, more cruel, cruelest, cruellest, the most cruel, are all acceptable. 02br
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00I wonder which form do you use mostly. I check in the Google, and found most items of "the most cruel", but I'm not sure about the most frequently used form of its comparative degree. Thank you!02br
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0 The degrees of "cruel" are cruel crueler cruelest02br 02br 00There is an increasing tendency to use "more" and "most" to indicate degree, and can be used to emphasise the degree. 0-

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  • 0 The degrees of "cruel" are cruel crueler cruelest02br 02br 00There is an increasing tendency to use "more" and "most" to indicate degree, and can be used to emphasise the degree.
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0 The degrees of "cruel" are cruel crueler cruelest02br
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00There is an increasing tendency to use "more" and "most" to indicate degree, and can be used to emphasise the degree. Depends on how the writers have been taught or on their stylistic preferences.0-
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01cite10Feebs1112cite10The degrees of "cruel" are cruel crueler cruelest12br
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10There is an increasing tendency to use "more" and "most" to indicate degree, and can be used to emphasise the degree. Depends on how the writers have 10been taught or on their stylistic preferences10.12br
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