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Alc24 Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Vaster vs more vast

Is it

That sentence is a lot more vast

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That sentence is a lot vester than the other one.

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I don't know what a "vast" sentence is. Aside from that, you can find the answers to such questions in a dictionary. st/ [vast, vahst] adjective, -er, -est, noun This tells us that 'vast' is an adjective and a noun, that the comparative form is 'vaster', and that the superlative form is 'vastest' -- the '-er' and '-est' suffixes tell us that.

— Ferdis

  • I don't know what a "vast" sentence is.
  • Aside from that, you can find the answers to such questions in a dictionary.
  • st/ [vast, vahst] adjective, -er, -est, noun This tells us that 'vast' is an adjective and a noun, that the comparative form is 'vaster', and that the superlative form is 'vastest' -- the '-er' and '-est' suffixes tell us that.
  • So the word you are looking for is 'vaster'.
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I don't know what a "vast" sentence is. Aside from that, you can find the answers to such questions in a dictionary. If you look up the word 'vast', you will find the following entry:

vast /væst, v?st/ [vast, vahst] adjective, -er, -est, noun

This tells us that 'vast' is an adjective and a noun, that the comparative form is 'vaster', and that the superlative form is 'vastest'
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ferdis is 100% correct.

I, however, find vaster to sound funny (though faster doesn't); I would use more vast, as a personal choice. And I would probably be wrong.
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Well, it's often OK to use the 'more'-form to give extra weight to the comparative form -- if it doesn't sound too funny, that is. "Never did I see a face more fair than hers." To be honest, I would also use 'more vast'; 'vaster' sounds terrible indeed.
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I had never heard the word "vaster" until today. I always thought " more vast" was more appropriate. I read it in The New Yorker Magazine. I would never use it personally, nor would I use the word "bigly"( thank you President Trump".
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