Degrees of Comparison: Revise and Check!

Dear students,

these are some sites where you can read about the use of the comparison in English:

1. Degrees of Comparison: summary + test

2. Equal, Unequal, Double Comparatives... etc. + test


After several years learning English, you must have a good grasp of the use of comparison, but I recommend you pay attention to the numbered comparatives, since they might be new for some of you.

Numbered Comparatives

Numbered comparatives can include such words or phrases as: half, twice, three times, four times, etc.

The phrase as much as is used for non-countable nouns and as many as is used for countable nouns.

The phrase more than is NOT used with numbered comparatives. It is incorrect to say four times more than, etc.

EXAMPLES:

• This rock weighs twice as much as that one.
• Ronald has four times as much money as Paul.
• The cat had half as many kittens as before.