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Comparative Form and the English language: A Few Insights.

Comparing two entities in English has to do with syllable counting: Whenever an adjective has
syllable counting that is superior to two, it is advisable that we replace the adjective with the word
'more' plus the adjective instead of with the adjective plus the suffix 'er'. If the adjective to be used
has up to two syllables, one should add 'er', as a suffix for that adjective, instead.

Occlusion determines syllable counting.

To learn the correct way to pronounce a word, one should consult a dictionary. The pronunciation
appears in the best dictionaries available in the market in between a couple of separators, it follows
the word, and it makes use of a universal phonetic alphabet, which indicates what occlusion
situation each vocal emission of the user of the language should be originating from when they utter
a specific word.

This way, for instance, the word 'good' should be sounding like \'gủd\ (http://www.merriam-
webster.com/dictionary/good). Because it fits the rule for words of less than two syllables, its
comparative form will demand that the suffix 'er' be used. Nonetheless, 'good' is an exotic word in
what regards its comparative form and it becomes 'better' instead of 'gooder'. As exotic as the word
good, in terms of comparative form, are a few other words, all contained in a list.

The vast majority of the words follows the rule, however. For instance, consider 'ugly': In the
dictionary, it reads (\'ə-glē\ ), as for Phonetics (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ugly),
and it has two syllables, falling inside of the rule that allows us to add the suffix 'er' to the word.
Therefore, 'Mary is uglier than Joanne' is a correct sentence in English. The word 'excited', on the
other hand, has more than two syllables. Therefore, 'this group is more excited than the other' is an
acceptable sentence in English.

Another group of exotic words contains words like 'boring', which derives from 'bore', which is a
verb, different from 'good', which is originally an adjective. With any adjective that was originally a
verb, we have to make use of the word 'more' instead of adding the suffix. This way, the rule is valid
only for pure adjectives. In the just mentioned second exotic situation, we find 'caring', 'loving', and
etc.

As a closing remark for this short note, notice that syllable counting may be worked out from the
phonetic reading of the word, sufficing counting how many 'hyphens' there are in the reading and
adding one to that number (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ready). 'Ready' (\'re-dē\),
for instance, has two syllables instead of the three some people could think to be there while
considering how they say the word (\re'-a-dē\). If this is your case, remember to 'fix your occlusion
next time'!

Warning: This note does not exhaust the matter. Please go 'deeper'!

Short bio:

I. M. R. Pinheiro has graduated at Fisk Schools, attained a Postgraduate Diploma in Translation and
Interpretation (UERJ), and has been working with Translation since then (1992). She is accredited
by Naati in Australia as both Interpreter and Translator.