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Diamondrg Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

laxer or more lax

0Please be ---- with him, will you?02br
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00a) more lax b) laxer0-
  

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0 01i 00Please be more 01b 00lenient/tolerant02b 00 with him. 02br 02br 02i 00but: laxer01i 02br 02br 02i 00 0-

— Marius Hancu

  • 0 01i 00Please be more 01b 00lenient/tolerant02b 00 with him.
  • 02br 02br 02i 00but: laxer01i 02br 02br 02i 00 0-
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0 01i00Please be more 01b00lenient/tolerant02b00 with him. 02br
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02i00but: laxer01i02br
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0 Hi,02br
00I don't think the comparative of lax is laxer. I think it's 01i01b00"more lax"02b02i01b00.02b00It's probably an exception, I don't know. 050010id1
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01cite10Kooyeen12cite10Hi,12br
10I don't think the comparative of lax is laxer. I think it's 11i11b10"more lax"12b12i11b10.12b10It's probably an exception, I don't know. 15112br
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10According to Collins Cobuild Dict
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0 I don't know...02br
00Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary doesn't mention "laxer", and when it doesn't mention anything about an adjective it means that they consider the comparative and superlative form to take "more" and "most".02br
00Merriam-Webster do the same, and doesn't mention "laxer" or "laxest".02br
00Plus, if you search on the net, it seems "more
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00 Function: 01i00adjective02i02br
01font00 Inflected Form(s): 02font01b01font00-er/-est02font02br
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0 Uh! So there's a mistake in the online version of Merriam-Webster... How strange.02br
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00Maybe this is part of a bigger problem, that is, when to choose "more" or "-er". The adjective "sad" should become "sadder", but who knows how much "more sad" is common? It's often difficult to say... 050010id1
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01cite10Kooyeen12cite10Uh! So there's a mistake in the online version of Merriam-Webster... How strange.12br
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10 There isn't any mistake. The version you're accessing is the free one, thus less complete. 02br
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00 You may want to pay $30/year to see what I see (the Unabridg
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01cite10Marius Hancu12cite10 There isn't any mistake. The version you're accessing is the free one, thus less complete. 12br
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10Well, that doesn't make sense... If you look up "sad" in the free version, they list "sadder". The same is true of other adjectives. Why do they have to leave out some im
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0 Hi Kooyeen02br
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00I'd say you'll probably find a native speaker who has trouble adding -er and -est to one-syllable adjectives at about the same time that pigs start flying.05002br
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00Try the American Heritage Dictionary. The online version isn't quite as lax. 05102br
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01cite10Yankee12cite10I'd say you'll probably find a native speaker who has trouble adding -er and -est to one-syllable adjectives at about the same time that pigs start flying.15111a12a12br
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10Well, I'm now wondering if pigs can
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