Sentence question

They are grammatically correct and meaningful, but they are not natural.

'Brown rice takes longer to digest than white rice.'

Rover_KEThey are grammatically correct and meaningful, but they are not natural.'Brown rice takes longer to digest than white rice.'

Thank you and thanks for your example. Just curious, do they essentially have the same meaning?

Also, how about these are they correct and natural:

It takes a long time to digest brown rice.
It takes a longe

If you bring in the comparative 'longer' you need to say what you are comparing it to.

'It takes a long time to digest brown rice' is good as a stand-alone sentence, but 'It takes a longer time to digest brown rice' is not, as it raises the question 'a longer time than what?'

Rover_KEIf you bring in the comparative 'longer' you need to say what you are comparing it to.'It takes a long time to digest brown rice' is good as a stand-alone sentence, but 'It takes a longer time to digest brown rice' is not, as it raises the question 'a longer time than what?'

Yes, that was what I thought. I was going to ask you that question next. So yo

Yes.