Rabbi Hammerman’s question got me thinking about an issue I had never thought about before. Is there any rule that tells us when the comparative form of an adjective is made by adding “-er” and when ...

Superlative close superlativeA word that describes the most of something, for example the biggest, the strongest, the fastest. adjectives are used to compare things and say which one is the biggest, ...

“When is it grammatically correct to use ‘more clear’ in place of ‘clearer’?” an internet user asked on Quora last year. There are some problems with this question. The first is that the writer was ...

If you have two children, ages 10 and 12, is the 12-year-old the oldest? Or is she the older? Can you say she’s your eldest child? Or must you say she’s the elder child? The answer, believe it or not, ...

We characterized the evolutionary history of growth form (solitary–colonial) and its interaction with species’ habitat (planktonic–benthic) across a multi-gene phylogeny encompassing a broad sample of ...

This paper is a study of the syntactic process of Comparative Ellipsis (CE) and its semantic interpretation. Concentrating on CE constructions in Modern Hebrew containing the morpheme aSer, the paper ...