{"id":1740,"date":"2017-01-16T16:43:02","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T16:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1740"},"modified":"2017-01-16T16:43:02","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T16:43:02","slug":"better-as-an-adjective-adverb-or-verb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/better-as-an-adjective-adverb-or-verb\/","title":{"rendered":"Better as an adjective, adverb or verb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The word better can be an adjective, adverb and verb.<\/p>\n<p>As an adjective, <strong>better<\/strong> is the comparative form of the adjective good.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She is a better dancer than me. (Informal)<\/li>\n<li>She is a better dancer than I am. (More formal)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Better<\/strong> can mean greater, larger, bigger and longer.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The better part of the day was spent in working.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Better<\/strong> can also mean stronger, fitter or healthier.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Grandpa is better today. (= He is healthier today.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Better<\/strong> can also be an adverb. As an adverb, better is the comparative form of well.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Learn to play a little better before joining the team.<\/li>\n<li>You sing better than your sister.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Better<\/strong> can mean more or longer.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It takes better than an hour to get to the airport. (= It takes more than an hour \u2026)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As a verb, better means improve, advance or upgrade.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He tried to better himself by obtaining more degrees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Better can also mean surpass or exceed.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The pole vaulter bettered the world record by six inches.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word better can be an adjective, adverb and verb. As an adjective, better is the comparative form of the adjective good. She is a better dancer than me. (Informal) She is a better&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[371],"class_list":["post-1740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-better"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1741,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions\/1741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}