Grammar/Comparative(3)
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comparison adjective
Comparative adjectives 비교급 형용사는 두 대상의 특성을 비교할 때 사용한다: Josh is taller than his sister. I’m more interested in music than sport. Big cars that use a lot of petrol are less popular now than twenty years ago. Superlative adjectives 최상급 형용사는 한 대상과 그 대상이 속한 집단을 비교할 때 사용한다: The ‘Silver Arrow’ will be the fastest train in the world when it is built. The most frightening film I’ve ever seen was Alfred Hi..
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the comparative
'The 비교급 ~, the 비교급 ~' 구문은 '~할수록, ~하다' 라는 의미로 비교와 대조의 개념으로 많이 사용한다: (the 비교급 + 절, the 비교급 + 절) The more adventurous it is, the more I hate it. (NOT The more it is adventurous, the more I hate it.) The more I see him, the more I like him. The less he reads, the less he understands. The older we grow, the wiser we become. The higher you climb, the colder it gets. The richer one grows, the greater ..
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as ~ as ...
비교하는 두 대상이 어떤 점에서 동등하다고 표현할 때 'as +형용사 / 부사 + as'를 사용한다: The world’s biggest bull is as big as a small elephant. The weather this summer is as bad as last year. It hasn’t stopped raining for weeks. You have to unwrap it as carefully as you can. It’s quite fragile. 비교하는 두 대상이 동등하지 않다고 표현할 때 'not as ... as'를 사용한다: It’s not as heavy as I thought it would be, actually. Rory hasn’t grown as tall as T..
2022.05.28