| Aggetivi in inglesi precendono il sostantivo in generale My Dog is Skilful | abile | skilful | infelice | unhappy | ||||||||
| I am unhappy | addormentato | asleep | insicuro | insecure | ||||||||
| affascinante | fascinating | intelligente | intelligent | |||||||||
| affidabile | reliable | largo | wide | |||||||||
| allegro | cheerful | leale | fair | |||||||||
| alto | high | leggero | light | |||||||||
| amaro | bitter | lento | slow | |||||||||
| antipatico | unpleasant | lungo | long | |||||||||
| anziano | elderly | magro | thin | |||||||||
| arrabbiato | angry | maleducato | rude | |||||||||
| attivo | active | moro | dark | |||||||||
| audace | bold | nero | black | |||||||||
| basso | short | noioso | boring | |||||||||
| bello | beautiful | nuovo | new | |||||||||
| bianco | white | onesto | honest | |||||||||
| biondo | blond | pauroso | fearful | |||||||||
| brutto | ugly | pesante | heavy | |||||||||
| buono | good | piccante | spicy | |||||||||
| caldo | hot | piccolo | small | |||||||||
| calmo | calm | popolare | popular | |||||||||
| carino | pretty | povero | poor | |||||||||
| cattivo | wicked | pregiato | fine | |||||||||
| chiaro | clear | prezioso | precious | |||||||||
| codardo | coward | raro | rare | |||||||||
| colto | cultured | ricco | rich | |||||||||
| coraggioso | brave | rotondo | round | |||||||||
| corto | short | ruvido | rough | |||||||||
| costoso | expensive | salato | salty | |||||||||
| debole | weak | sano | healthy | |||||||||
| disgustoso | disgusting | scaduto | expired | |||||||||
| disonesto | dishonest | scuro | dark | |||||||||
| dolce | sweet | semplice | simple | |||||||||
| duro | hard | sensibile | sensible | |||||||||
| educato | polite | sferico | spherical | |||||||||
| elegante | elegant | sicuro | safe | |||||||||
| esperto | expert | simpatico | likeable | |||||||||
| felice | happy | solo | alone | |||||||||
| forte | strong | speciale | special | |||||||||
| fortunato | lucky | stanco | tired | |||||||||
| fragile | fragile | stretto | narrow | |||||||||
| freddo | cold | stupido | stupid | |||||||||
| gentile | kind | sveglio | quick | |||||||||
| gigante | giant | tenero | soft | |||||||||
| giovane | young | timido | shy | |||||||||
| grande | great | tranquillo | calm | |||||||||
| grasso | fat | triste | sad | |||||||||
| impaurito | afraid | unico | unique | |||||||||
| incapace | incapable | valido | valid | |||||||||
| incompetente | incompetent | vecchio | old | |||||||||
| inesperto | inexperienced | veloce | fast |
Showing posts with label grammar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grammar. Show all posts
Sunday, 13 April 2014
les
the passive
QUESTA LEZIONE E PER I STUDENTI DEL CORSO DI RECUPERO DI INGLESE DEL INSTITUTO STRAFFA.
Queste Lezioni si svolgeranno ogni settimana per tutta l'estate. Gli studenti sono invitati a partecipare indicando gli argomenti da affrontare. Sono graditi commenti al riguardo da chiunque.
Lezione n. 1 IL PASSIVO (The passive voice)
Perche si usa il passivo? La maggior parte degli inglesi non sa neanche che significa, per noi se uno dice THIS PAINTING WAS PAINTED BY VAN GOGH o VAN GOGH PAINTED THIS PICTURE per noi e' assolutamente la stessa cosa.
Ad un insegnante Italiano direi che e'si importante focallizare THE PAINTING o THE PAINTER (il quadro or L'Artista) ma questo non e' importante per noi inglesi.Perche' l' informazione e' la stessa. Ma in qualche situazione bisogna usare il passivo perche non c'e un altro modo . Per esempio
1.Negli Avvisi . Hooligans running on the pitch will be prosecuted (passive)
Shoplifters will be prosecuted (passive)
We will prosecute Shoplifters (activo) .Molto spesso in Italia un insegnante dice che in questa tipo di avviso si preferisce il passivo. Ma non e vero perche L'attivo poi essere usato e anche spesso
,allora reguardo gli avvisi o divieti La forma formale o tradizionale e' il passivo ma oggi giorno in un mondo piu aggressivo si usa molto la forma attiva. WE WILL PROSECUTE SHOPLIFTERS
WALKING ON THE GRASS IS NOT ALLOWED (passive)
L;unico modo di dire questo avviso nell attivo e'
NO ONE CAN WALK ON THE GRASS
In inglese non suona molto bene anche se e' molto chiaro
perche anche nei avvisi oggi giorno il linguaggio diventa piu diretto e quasi aggressivo.
NEGLI PROCEDIMENTI SCIENTIFICI
Questo e un linguaggio formale e non colloquiale. Un linguaggio che dev essere preciso al cento per cento. Non c'e spazio per fantasia
Un esempio IN PASTEURIZATION MILK IS HEATED TO 72 DEGREES(passivo)
se transformiamo in attivo il resultato sarrebbe
"72 degrees is the temperature to heat milk for pasteurization"
Questa forma e' molto chiaro ma in questi casi non si usa quasi mai l'attivo perche il passivo e la forma tradizionale e a volte suona meglio ma non sempre.
IL SI PASSIVANTE ITALIANO
"Si pregano i visitatori di depositare le borse qui "
diventa in inglese VISITORS ARE REQUIRED TO LEAVE THE BAGS HERE ( in questo caso il corrispondente passivante italiano in inglese YOU o ONE non puo' essere usato a meno che noi diciamo
YOU ARE REQUESTED TO LEAVE YOUR BAGS HERE (passivo)
ONE IS REQUESTED TO LEAVE HIS OR HER BAG HERE (passivo)
o visitors must leave their bags here (attivo).
La vera differenza per noi inglesi tra passivo e attivo e' che Il passivo e' considerato formale e per cio' intelletuale (anche nella forma di avvisi semplici , suona meglio YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO TOUCH THE FRUIT in confronto a YOU CANNOT TOUCH THE FRUIT, il secondo esempio ha un tono minaccioso)
Gli studenti del recupero devono communicare nei commenti se hanno letto questa lezione, ovviamente se ci sono problemi fa mi sapere
Queste Lezioni si svolgeranno ogni settimana per tutta l'estate. Gli studenti sono invitati a partecipare indicando gli argomenti da affrontare. Sono graditi commenti al riguardo da chiunque.
Lezione n. 1 IL PASSIVO (The passive voice)
Perche si usa il passivo? La maggior parte degli inglesi non sa neanche che significa, per noi se uno dice THIS PAINTING WAS PAINTED BY VAN GOGH o VAN GOGH PAINTED THIS PICTURE per noi e' assolutamente la stessa cosa.
Ad un insegnante Italiano direi che e'si importante focallizare THE PAINTING o THE PAINTER (il quadro or L'Artista) ma questo non e' importante per noi inglesi.Perche' l' informazione e' la stessa. Ma in qualche situazione bisogna usare il passivo perche non c'e un altro modo . Per esempio
1.Negli Avvisi . Hooligans running on the pitch will be prosecuted (passive)
Shoplifters will be prosecuted (passive)
We will prosecute Shoplifters (activo) .Molto spesso in Italia un insegnante dice che in questa tipo di avviso si preferisce il passivo. Ma non e vero perche L'attivo poi essere usato e anche spesso
,allora reguardo gli avvisi o divieti La forma formale o tradizionale e' il passivo ma oggi giorno in un mondo piu aggressivo si usa molto la forma attiva. WE WILL PROSECUTE SHOPLIFTERS
WALKING ON THE GRASS IS NOT ALLOWED (passive)
L;unico modo di dire questo avviso nell attivo e'
NO ONE CAN WALK ON THE GRASS
In inglese non suona molto bene anche se e' molto chiaro
perche anche nei avvisi oggi giorno il linguaggio diventa piu diretto e quasi aggressivo.
NEGLI PROCEDIMENTI SCIENTIFICI
Questo e un linguaggio formale e non colloquiale. Un linguaggio che dev essere preciso al cento per cento. Non c'e spazio per fantasia
Un esempio IN PASTEURIZATION MILK IS HEATED TO 72 DEGREES(passivo)
se transformiamo in attivo il resultato sarrebbe
"72 degrees is the temperature to heat milk for pasteurization"
Questa forma e' molto chiaro ma in questi casi non si usa quasi mai l'attivo perche il passivo e la forma tradizionale e a volte suona meglio ma non sempre.
IL SI PASSIVANTE ITALIANO
"Si pregano i visitatori di depositare le borse qui "
diventa in inglese VISITORS ARE REQUIRED TO LEAVE THE BAGS HERE ( in questo caso il corrispondente passivante italiano in inglese YOU o ONE non puo' essere usato a meno che noi diciamo
YOU ARE REQUESTED TO LEAVE YOUR BAGS HERE (passivo)
ONE IS REQUESTED TO LEAVE HIS OR HER BAG HERE (passivo)
o visitors must leave their bags here (attivo).
La vera differenza per noi inglesi tra passivo e attivo e' che Il passivo e' considerato formale e per cio' intelletuale (anche nella forma di avvisi semplici , suona meglio YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO TOUCH THE FRUIT in confronto a YOU CANNOT TOUCH THE FRUIT, il secondo esempio ha un tono minaccioso)
Gli studenti del recupero devono communicare nei commenti se hanno letto questa lezione, ovviamente se ci sono problemi fa mi sapere
Monday, 12 August 2013
relative pronouns
LESSON 2
QUESTA LEZIONE E PER I STUDENTI DEL CORSO DI RECUPERO DI INGLESE DEL INSTITUTO STRAFFA.
"Queste Lezioni si svolgeranno ogni settimana per tutta l'estate. Gli studenti sono invitati a partecipare indicando gli argomenti da affrontare.
RELATIVE PRONOUNS
What does this mean ? It means purely another name for something= a name relative to the name we are talking about.
MARY, who likes biscuits,eats too many.
WHO is the second name that refers to Mary
PAUL,who has no hair, wishes he had.
who refers to paul.
The relative pronouns in English are which, that, who, whom, and whose. Who and whom refer only to people. Which refers to things, qualities, and ideas--never to people. That and whose refer to people, things, qualities, and ideas.
WHO=is used generally for People
Adriana,WHO is from Latin America, loves the tango
WHO refers to Adriana
WHICH=is used for Things
Biscuits, which are made in Italy, are nice
Which is the name that refers to Biscuits
Which is also used of small children=Babies,which do not sleep,should be given beer (LOL)
THAT=is used for people and things,
WHOM. Its not used very much today.
For instance "TO WHOM AM I TALKING TO"
Its beginning to sound too formal, its beginning to sound artificial and stilted
so you will hear "TO WHO AM I TALKING TO"
but as a relative pronoun WHO should not be allowed to replace WHOM=
THE BAKER WHOM THE BANKER WANTED TO MARRY SAID HE WAS ALREADY MARRIED
not WHO the banker wanted to marry
whom is the name that refers to the the Baker.
When WHOM has a related preposition following it sounds not so good today
HE TOLD HIM TO WHOM TO APPLY FOR A MEMBERS CARD=
Who is better here.
You cannot use WHO when the governing preposition comes directly in front of WHOM, in that case you cannot use WHO
= FOR WHO ARE YOU GOING TO VOTE xxxxxx wrong
FOR WHOM ARE YOU GOING TO VOTE =right
but everyone (in England)says =for who are you going to vote for although in a test use whom
REASON= English evolves and the mistakes become in the end grammar. (English grammar evolves as the people use it.)
but there are exceptions ,Who is also used of non human things provided they are being personalised or in some way regarded as having human qualities
I met an Alien called Paul who said "I come from a planet far away".(sesto San Giovanni)
I bought a dog called Ken who came from a dogs home
!Italy ,who are still losing to Lower Chad ,have just scored"
of course a country should not take WHO if we consider it purely as a geographical location. If we do it does not have a relative pronoun
In regional English WHO is often left out
"Theres no man in the world works as hard as Paul" Who should come before works but as said is left out a lot in regional English in Northern England.
If we have two WHO we sometimes leave one out=
"Who was it that discovered oxygen,did you say"?AS a relative pronoun WHOM should be used as the object form but not if it sounds very false or stilted, if preceded by a governing preposition then WHOM must always be used.
RECOMMENDATION
Its acceptable in all but the most formal English to say or write WHO as the object when asking a question
QUESTA LEZIONE E PER I STUDENTI DEL CORSO DI RECUPERO DI INGLESE DEL INSTITUTO STRAFFA.
QUESTA LEZIONE E PER I STUDENTI DEL CORSO DI RECUPERO DI INGLESE DEL INSTITUTO STRAFFA.
"Queste Lezioni si svolgeranno ogni settimana per tutta l'estate. Gli studenti sono invitati a partecipare indicando gli argomenti da affrontare.
RELATIVE PRONOUNS
What does this mean ? It means purely another name for something= a name relative to the name we are talking about.
MARY, who likes biscuits,eats too many.
WHO is the second name that refers to Mary
PAUL,who has no hair, wishes he had.
who refers to paul.
The relative pronouns in English are which, that, who, whom, and whose. Who and whom refer only to people. Which refers to things, qualities, and ideas--never to people. That and whose refer to people, things, qualities, and ideas.
WHO=is used generally for People
Adriana,WHO is from Latin America, loves the tango
WHO refers to Adriana
WHICH=is used for Things
Biscuits, which are made in Italy, are nice
Which is the name that refers to Biscuits
Which is also used of small children=Babies,which do not sleep,should be given beer (LOL)
THAT=is used for people and things,
WHOM. Its not used very much today.
For instance "TO WHOM AM I TALKING TO"
Its beginning to sound too formal, its beginning to sound artificial and stilted
so you will hear "TO WHO AM I TALKING TO"
but as a relative pronoun WHO should not be allowed to replace WHOM=
THE BAKER WHOM THE BANKER WANTED TO MARRY SAID HE WAS ALREADY MARRIED
not WHO the banker wanted to marry
whom is the name that refers to the the Baker.
When WHOM has a related preposition following it sounds not so good today
HE TOLD HIM TO WHOM TO APPLY FOR A MEMBERS CARD=
Who is better here.
You cannot use WHO when the governing preposition comes directly in front of WHOM, in that case you cannot use WHO
= FOR WHO ARE YOU GOING TO VOTE xxxxxx wrong
FOR WHOM ARE YOU GOING TO VOTE =right
but everyone (in England)says =for who are you going to vote for although in a test use whom
REASON= English evolves and the mistakes become in the end grammar. (English grammar evolves as the people use it.)
but there are exceptions ,Who is also used of non human things provided they are being personalised or in some way regarded as having human qualities
I met an Alien called Paul who said "I come from a planet far away".(sesto San Giovanni)
I bought a dog called Ken who came from a dogs home
!Italy ,who are still losing to Lower Chad ,have just scored"
of course a country should not take WHO if we consider it purely as a geographical location. If we do it does not have a relative pronoun
In regional English WHO is often left out
"Theres no man in the world works as hard as Paul" Who should come before works but as said is left out a lot in regional English in Northern England.
If we have two WHO we sometimes leave one out=
"Who was it that discovered oxygen,did you say"?AS a relative pronoun WHOM should be used as the object form but not if it sounds very false or stilted, if preceded by a governing preposition then WHOM must always be used.
RECOMMENDATION
Its acceptable in all but the most formal English to say or write WHO as the object when asking a question
QUESTA LEZIONE E PER I STUDENTI DEL CORSO DI RECUPERO DI INGLESE DEL INSTITUTO STRAFFA.
comparatives
LESSON 3 everyone on the course must read this and add a comment that they read it, anyone else who is not on the course can make a constructive comment if they want, theres an italian translation from paolo ciampa my best friend and great tottenham fan
LESSON 2
QUESTA LEZIONE E PER I STUDENTI DEL CORSO DI RECUPERO DI INGLESE DEL INSTITUTO STRAFFA.
"Queste Lezioni si svolgeranno ogni settimana per tutta l'estate. Gli studenti sono invitati a partecipare indicando gli argomenti da affrontare.
COMPARATIVES
In linguistics, the comparative serves to express a comparison between two (or more) THINGS or groups of entities in quality, quantity, or degree. The comparative is signaled in English by the suffix -er or by a word of comparison (as, more, less) and the conjunction- or preposition-like word as or than.
so = TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR ARE BETTER THAN ARSENAL AND MILAN
ITALY IS THE SAME AS SPAIN
BOTH ARE COMPARING SOMETHING, THIS IS CALLED A COMPARATIVE
A COMPARATIVE MEANS TO COMPARE TWO THINGS AND IN THE COMPARITIVE THERE MUST ALWAYS BE TWO THINGS, A COMPARATIVE MEANS TO COMPARE
MARIA IS BETTER LOOKING THAN ANY WOMAN I KNOW
ONE THING IS maria THE SECOND THING IS any woman i know
in the uk we have publicity like this =DAZ WASHES Whiter
its not a comparative because there is no second think so its gramatically wrong because we dont know what daz washes whiter than
The comparative is frequently associated with adjectives and adverbs because these words take the -er suffix or modifying word more or less (e.g. faster, more intelligent, less wasteful);
HAMILTON IS FASTER THAN ANY ITALIAN DRIVER
GERMANY IS LESS WASTEFUL THAN ITALY AS REGARDS RUBBISH
PROF GARY IS MORE INTELLIGENT THAN ANYONE
it can also, however, appear when no adjective or adverb is present, for instance with nouns
QUESTION. WHAT WAS THE PARTY LIKE?
ANSWER. NOT VERY GOOD BECAUSE THERE WERE MORE men than women.
Most if not all languages have some means of forming the comparative, although these means can vary significantly from one language to the next.
The comparitve can be part of a whole sentence
"Paolo is bald and so is Freddie his mate but Paolo's head is BETTER than Freddie's because it looks like an orange and |Freddie's head looks like a pear .
Paolo comes from Calabria and he says "Calabria is much better than Brianza and that Calabrians are more fun than Brianzans"
here we have two comparisons in one sentence.
The comparative in English is generally expressed by a combination of two elements/words, by -er, more, less, as and a second word introducing the second part of the comparison (as or than). As described in the following section, the suffix -er is used with many adjectives, particularly monosyllabic ones (and some adverbs), and more is used with all other words (other adjectives and adverbs, nouns).
MARY. She is smarter than him.
SUSAN. YEH THATS TRUE AND She is more intelligent than him.
HERE ARE MORE EXAMPLES
. Your music is nicer than my music.
Your music is more pleasant than my music.
Sam helps less often than Susan does.
He laughs more than you do.
More boys wanted to play than girls.
Tom is as annoying as he is useless.
The THINGS compared by the comparative can be most anything, e.g. people, places, things, actions, abstract notions, traits, etc.
Most adverbs are formed in English by adding -ly to the end of an adjective, which makes them polysyllabic; they therefore form the comparative via more, as in
This sofa seats three people more comfortably than the other one.
Some irregular adverbs such as fast or hard do not use more, though, but rather they take the -er suffix, as the adjectives do, e.g.
My new car starts faster than the old one
or
She studies harder than her sister does.
Comparatives without than
null comparative
THE null comparative is one in which the starting point for comparison is not stated. These comparisons are frequently found in advertising, for example, in typical assertions such as
Our burgers have more flavor
Our picture is sharper.
These uses of the comparative do not mention what it is they are being compared to. In some cases it is easy to infer what the missing element in a null comparative is. In other cases, the speaker or writer has been deliberately vague, for example "Glasgow's miles better".
The null comparative has sense for the english but is often used badly
MARY.The boys round here are really ugly
SUSAN . "bill is miles better".
the sense here is that bill is better than all the boys around here who are really ugly, bill is the first thing and the boys around here the second, we really need two thgings to make a comparative although the null comparative is based on the other person understanding whast the missing thing is
MARY. This pizza is better
Susan . you can say that again
but what is the pizza better than, in susan's mind the pizza is better than all the pizzas shes ever eaten, but its not clear so in a test dont write the null comparative.
on t.shirts we see ITALIANS DO IT BETTER
BUT WHAT DO THEY DO BETTER? Whining all the time?)lol
so the grammar is wrong
Scientific classification
This includes the adjectives greater and lesser, when a large or small variety of an item is meant, These adjectives may at first sight appear as a kind of null comparative, when as is usual, they are cited without their opposite counterpart. It should be apparent, however, that an entirely different variety of animal, scientific, or geographical object is intended. Thus it may be found, for example,
that the lesser panda entails a giant panda variety,
if there is a Lesser Antilles then there must be a Greater Antilles.
if there ius a lower Chad then there a greater Chad
LESSON 2
QUESTA LEZIONE E PER I STUDENTI DEL CORSO DI RECUPERO DI INGLESE DEL INSTITUTO STRAFFA.
"Queste Lezioni si svolgeranno ogni settimana per tutta l'estate. Gli studenti sono invitati a partecipare indicando gli argomenti da affrontare.
COMPARATIVES
In linguistics, the comparative serves to express a comparison between two (or more) THINGS or groups of entities in quality, quantity, or degree. The comparative is signaled in English by the suffix -er or by a word of comparison (as, more, less) and the conjunction- or preposition-like word as or than.
so = TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR ARE BETTER THAN ARSENAL AND MILAN
ITALY IS THE SAME AS SPAIN
BOTH ARE COMPARING SOMETHING, THIS IS CALLED A COMPARATIVE
A COMPARATIVE MEANS TO COMPARE TWO THINGS AND IN THE COMPARITIVE THERE MUST ALWAYS BE TWO THINGS, A COMPARATIVE MEANS TO COMPARE
MARIA IS BETTER LOOKING THAN ANY WOMAN I KNOW
ONE THING IS maria THE SECOND THING IS any woman i know
in the uk we have publicity like this =DAZ WASHES Whiter
its not a comparative because there is no second think so its gramatically wrong because we dont know what daz washes whiter than
The comparative is frequently associated with adjectives and adverbs because these words take the -er suffix or modifying word more or less (e.g. faster, more intelligent, less wasteful);
HAMILTON IS FASTER THAN ANY ITALIAN DRIVER
GERMANY IS LESS WASTEFUL THAN ITALY AS REGARDS RUBBISH
PROF GARY IS MORE INTELLIGENT THAN ANYONE
it can also, however, appear when no adjective or adverb is present, for instance with nouns
QUESTION. WHAT WAS THE PARTY LIKE?
ANSWER. NOT VERY GOOD BECAUSE THERE WERE MORE men than women.
Most if not all languages have some means of forming the comparative, although these means can vary significantly from one language to the next.
The comparitve can be part of a whole sentence
"Paolo is bald and so is Freddie his mate but Paolo's head is BETTER than Freddie's because it looks like an orange and |Freddie's head looks like a pear .
Paolo comes from Calabria and he says "Calabria is much better than Brianza and that Calabrians are more fun than Brianzans"
here we have two comparisons in one sentence.
The comparative in English is generally expressed by a combination of two elements/words, by -er, more, less, as and a second word introducing the second part of the comparison (as or than). As described in the following section, the suffix -er is used with many adjectives, particularly monosyllabic ones (and some adverbs), and more is used with all other words (other adjectives and adverbs, nouns).
MARY. She is smarter than him.
SUSAN. YEH THATS TRUE AND She is more intelligent than him.
HERE ARE MORE EXAMPLES
. Your music is nicer than my music.
Your music is more pleasant than my music.
Sam helps less often than Susan does.
He laughs more than you do.
More boys wanted to play than girls.
Tom is as annoying as he is useless.
The THINGS compared by the comparative can be most anything, e.g. people, places, things, actions, abstract notions, traits, etc.
Most adverbs are formed in English by adding -ly to the end of an adjective, which makes them polysyllabic; they therefore form the comparative via more, as in
This sofa seats three people more comfortably than the other one.
Some irregular adverbs such as fast or hard do not use more, though, but rather they take the -er suffix, as the adjectives do, e.g.
My new car starts faster than the old one
or
She studies harder than her sister does.
Comparatives without than
null comparative
THE null comparative is one in which the starting point for comparison is not stated. These comparisons are frequently found in advertising, for example, in typical assertions such as
Our burgers have more flavor
Our picture is sharper.
These uses of the comparative do not mention what it is they are being compared to. In some cases it is easy to infer what the missing element in a null comparative is. In other cases, the speaker or writer has been deliberately vague, for example "Glasgow's miles better".
The null comparative has sense for the english but is often used badly
MARY.The boys round here are really ugly
SUSAN . "bill is miles better".
the sense here is that bill is better than all the boys around here who are really ugly, bill is the first thing and the boys around here the second, we really need two thgings to make a comparative although the null comparative is based on the other person understanding whast the missing thing is
MARY. This pizza is better
Susan . you can say that again
but what is the pizza better than, in susan's mind the pizza is better than all the pizzas shes ever eaten, but its not clear so in a test dont write the null comparative.
on t.shirts we see ITALIANS DO IT BETTER
BUT WHAT DO THEY DO BETTER? Whining all the time?)lol
so the grammar is wrong
Scientific classification
This includes the adjectives greater and lesser, when a large or small variety of an item is meant, These adjectives may at first sight appear as a kind of null comparative, when as is usual, they are cited without their opposite counterpart. It should be apparent, however, that an entirely different variety of animal, scientific, or geographical object is intended. Thus it may be found, for example,
that the lesser panda entails a giant panda variety,
if there is a Lesser Antilles then there must be a Greater Antilles.
if there ius a lower Chad then there a greater Chad
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