{"id":72218,"date":"2019-09-17T05:40:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T05:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72218"},"modified":"2019-09-17T05:40:21","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T05:40:21","slug":"comparative-vs-superlative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/comparative-vs-superlative\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparative vs. Superlative"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper\">\n<section id=\"main\">The comparative (e.g. taller, sharper, stronger, heavier, shorter etc.) is used to compare one person or thing with another person or thing.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>John is<b> taller<\/b> than Peter.<\/li>\n<li>Alice is <b>cleverer<\/b> than Mary.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The superlative (e.g. tallest, sharpest, strongest, heaviest, shortest etc.) is used to compare somebody or something with the whole group to which she\/he\/it belongs.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>John is <b>the tallest<\/b> boy in the class.<\/li>\n<li>Alice is <b>the prettiest<\/b> of the four girls.<\/li>\n<li>He is <b>the best<\/b> player in the team.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When a group has only two members, we prefer the comparative to the superlative.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Incorrect: Take the shortest of the two routes.<\/li>\n<li>Correct: Take the <b>shorter<\/b> of the two routes.<\/li>\n<li>Incorrect: She is the prettiest of the two sisters.<\/li>\n<li>Correct: She is the <b>prettier<\/b> of the two sisters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The comparative (e.g. taller, sharper, stronger, heavier, shorter etc.) is used to compare one person or thing with another person or thing. John is taller than Peter. Alice is cleverer than Mary. The superlative&#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":[251],"tags":[1402,1405,1406,1404],"class_list":["post-72218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-comparative","tag-comparative-or-superlative","tag-comparative-vs-superlative","tag-superlative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72218","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=72218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72219,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72218\/revisions\/72219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}