You can compare quantities in different ways, depending on the type of noun you are referring to.
Have you heard of countable and uncountable nouns?
When talking about uncountable nouns; such as time, coffee, rice, milk and love; you would need to use more than and less than.
Take a look at the following examples:
There is less chocolate ice cream in my bowl than in Julian’s bowl.
You will find the following phrases useful while speaking English, as well as writing in English.
See what we did there? That was the first example of the idiomatic expression as well as.
We have chosen four different phrases for you. Each one is easy to remember and comes with two examples:
Meaning: in addition to something or someone else; also
Examples:
Most adjectives follow one of these rules when making comparatives.
New becomes newer
Intelligent becomes more intelligent
pretty become prettier
Clever becomes cleverer
Modal verbs are often difficult to learn because they can be used in a variety of situations. They are used with other verbs to express ability, obligation, possibility, and permission.
Let's take a look at some uses.
Can is used with ability ("I can speak English") and possibility ("I can come too").
Which is the best way to answer this question?
Question: Where did you go?
Answer: I go to school.
Answer: I went to school.
The correct answer is I went to school. We must use this answer because the question uses the past tense, did. Our response has to use the past tense too i.e. I went.
These two expressions are very similar, they both basically mean if something happens. The main difference in use is grammatical.
The meaning of these two sentences is the same.
She took an umbrella, just in case it rains.
She took an umbrella in case of rain.
In both cases, she took an umbrella because it may rain later.
Adverbs of manner are used to tell us the way or how something is done.
An adverb can be added to a verb to modify its meaning.
"She plays piano." - An adverb of manner can be added to the verb (play) to modify its meaning and give us more information on how she plays piano.
"She plays piano beautifully."
"She plays piano softly."
Simple Questions are questions that can be answered with Yes or No.
For example:
Are you happy?
The form of this question is: be + subject + adjective
The adjective can be changed to different words but the be + subject stays the same:
Is she here?
Am I right?
Is James coming with us?
Was David listening?
We use use much and many in questions and negative sentences. They both show an amount of something.
We use much with singular nouns.
Question: "How much petrol is in the car?"
Negative clause: "We don't have much time left."
What's wrong with this sentence?
"Boy played in the park."
The problem is that the noun 'boy' (the subjects) cannot be used without an article. We could say, for example, 'The boy', 'A boy' or 'My neighbour's boy'. Generally, the articles a and the are used with nouns.
Use the before singular and plural nouns when the noun is specific.
