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    Prettier than/help

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    Prettier than/help
    Message from nicoleolguin posted on 18-06-2013 at 18:10:25 (D | E | F)
    Hello

    I had your exercise about comparative and superlative and the first sentence.. that says:
    Sandra is ---------- (+ pretty) Sophia.
    I wrote : SANDRA IS MORE PRETTIER THAN SOPHIA
    because I know that the adjective PRETTY ends in Y and this adjective has two syllables so, you need to write MORE + THAN + ADJECTIVE
    and when I finished it was wrong..
    I can't understand because the page said to me that the correct form is :
    SANDRA IS PRETTIER THAN SOPHIA .
    Can you explain me better?
    Thank you for your help.

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    Edited by lucile83 on 18-06-2013 18:42


    Re: Prettier than/help from gerondif, posted on 18-06-2013 at 18:43:39 (D | E)
    Hello,

    adjectives ending in y are considered short, even with two syllables:
    Sandra is taller, older, shier, happier and heavier than Sophia. As Lucile points out, it is a miracle she is prettier than Sophia !!
    With more than two syllables, the adjective can be considered as a long one:
    Sandra is more pleasant, more sensitive, more lovely, more extraordinary than Sophia.



    Re: Prettier than/help from lucile83, posted on 18-06-2013 at 18:45:51 (D | E)
    Hello gerondif!

    Yes but Sophia is prettier than Sandra.




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