Narrower or more narrow?

[nq:1]According to our grammar rules the comaprison of "narrow" should be "narrower, narrowest". Is it also acceptable to use "more narrow, most narrow"?[/nq]
Yes.
Adrian

[nq:1]Hello again, According to our grammar rules the comaprison of "narrow" should be "narrower, narrowest". Is it also acceptable to use "more narrow, most narrow"? Thanks again. Bernhard[/nq]
Generally, it's poor style, but there can be occasions when a writer feels he must use it: we aren't strict about this. You should stick to the regular form.

Mike.

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[nq:2]"narrower, narrowest". Is it also acceptable to use "more narrow, most narrow"? [/nq]
[nq:1]Generally, it's poor style, but there can be occasions when a writer feels he must use it: we aren't strict about this.[/nq]
Using "more" or "most" where it's "-er" or "-est" is standard is easier on the ears, I think, when it does not appear immediately before a

[nq:2]Generally, it's poor style, but there can be occasions when awriter feels he must use it: we aren't strict about this.[/nq]
[nq:1]Using "more" or "most" where it's "-er" or "-est" is standard is easier on the ears, I think, when it ... The happiest among us should clap his hands. But not: * The most happy among us should clap his hands.[/nq]
I disagree strongly: it screeches in my ea

[nq:1]I disagree strongly: it screeches in my ears![/nq]
This is one of the cases in which I suspect that American usage is more strongly influenced by people who learned English as a foreign language than is British usage.

Mike.

[nq:1]Hello again, According to our grammar rules the comaprison of "narrow" should be "narrower, narrowest". Is it also acceptable to use "more narrow, most narrow"?[/nq]
Yes, although there is a slight difference in meaning between "It is narrowest" and "It is most narrow." Be warned that "most" can be used as an intensifier:
(OED2, s.v. 'most')

2. As an intensive superlative qu

[nq:1]writer[/nq]
[nq:2]I disagree strongly: it screeches in my ears![/nq]
[nq:1]This is one of the cases in which I suspect that American usage is more strongly influenced by people who learned English as a foreign language than is British usage.[/nq]
Oh, sure, right. So I guess all these folks fell under foreign influence as well: Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Charles

[nq:2]I disagree strongly: it screeches in my ears![/nq]
[nq:1]This is one of the cases in which I suspect that American usage is more strongly influenced by people who learned English as a foreign language than is British usage.[/nq]
I'm-a the most happy fella ...
Should we caution Bernhard that, in the UK, "more narrow boats" is ambiguous?

John Dean
Oxford

[nq:2]This is one of the cases in which I suspect ... who learned English as aforeign language than is British usage.[/nq]
[nq:1]Oh, sure, right. So I guess all these folks fell under foreign influence as well: Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Emily ... shows none of the usual US writers inthe database (Twain, London, James) except for a single hit from L.Frank Baum.[/nq]
That's very

[nq:1]writer[/nq]
[nq:2]Using "more" or "most" where it's "-er" or "-est" is ... * The most happy among us should clap his hands.[/nq]
[nq:1]I disagree strongly: it screeches in my ears![/nq]
The happiest clap with one hand, mostly,
Jan