[etni] [FWD: Re: [FWD: comparative adjectives]]

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 Subject: Re: [etni] [FWD: comparative adjectives]
 From: "Haya Chickinsky" <shaya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 Date: Tue, January 27, 2004 6:57 am
 To: ask@xxxxxxxx
 
 Dear Vivianne:
 Adjectives of two syllables are the hardest to teach as they can have either 
more before or -er added to the end, or can accept both.  (see any linguistic 
dictionary.  I generally use Quirk and Greenbaum or Stavik).
For example,    you can say tireder or more tired.  It depends on the dialect.
Some use one  form or the other, some use both. Some, like those that end in -y 
, -le, -ow, -er, -ure, because they are unstressed syllables, take -er. 
Gerunds, on the other hand are almost always  more ( more boring).
 
 Hope this helps
 Haya

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