"Greater than" or "greater than"?
"Here I am, poor fool - and I am as smart as before." As before? Well, is that correct? And you hear so often that "one person is better than the other" - sounds kind of weird - doesn't it? And that someone is bigger than you? Right or wrong? - If your toenails do not roll up automatically, then you need a donkey's bridge for the corresponding grammatical rules.
What distinguishes "big" from "bigger"
- At least that should be clear - big is big - and "bigger" is the way it increases - as well as small / smaller, old / older, etc.
- You can use the appropriate terms to describe things and also differentiate them from one another. If there are differences: It could also be, for example, you measure two people lengthways and it turns out that they are exactly the same size. One is tall and the other is just as tall, so they are the same in terms of length.
- The situation is different if the two differ in length from one another - one may be tall, but the comparison shows that the other is taller.
- This ability to use words to describe the same or different things is the basis of your donkey's bridge, the You need the little words "like" and "as" for the correct use of the little words, if you are not naturally firmly in the saddle when it comes to grammar goes.
And here is the "basic formula" that you can use as a guide
- A small formula that you can easily remember is sufficient for the correct use of "how" and "as". If two or more things are the same / the same, then it is said "how", but if they differ, if they are different, then it is called "as".
- That, once internalized, always works - when you have two people of the same size in front of you, it means: one is just as tall as the other. If the two are of different lengths, then one is larger than the other.
- Or another example: Two people born on the same day can be described as "the same age". So one is just as old as the other. However, if there are twins, for example, and were born on the same day, then, roughly speaking, they are still the same age, but one of them was there a few minutes earlier, so they differ a little: one is a little older than that one other.
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