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Guest Posted 22 years ago
Grammar

Free comparative

I would like to know what is a free comparative
Could you please give me an example and a sentence?
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Sorry, no idea. Could you give us some context? The only possibility that springs to mind is that comparatives with the suffix '-er' could be called 'bound' comparatives, and then contrariwise, comparatives of the form 'more + adj/adv' could be called 'free comparatives'.

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  • Sorry, no idea.
  • Could you give us some context?
  • The only possibility that springs to mind is that comparatives with the suffix '-er' could be called 'bound' comparatives, and then contrariwise, comparatives of the form 'more + adj/adv' could be called 'free comparatives'.
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Sorry, no idea. Could you give us some context?

The only possibility that springs to mind is that comparatives with the suffix '-er' could be called 'bound' comparatives, and then contrariwise, comparatives of the form 'more + adj/adv' could be called 'free comparatives'.
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It may be a comparative without a "than" clause to go with it.

We ran faster when we realized how late we were.
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