"Poorer" vs. "more poor" - English Language & Usage Stack …
网页2014年9月22日 · Have a look at the BNC/the British National Corpus. For "poorer" BNC has 879 examples. For "more poor" only 8, and they are of the type "There are more poor people in + place". "more poor" as a comparative form clearly does not conform to standard English. The rule is adjectives with one syllable have the endings -er/est.
Is "worser" correct grammatically? - English Language & Usage …
网页2014年10月22日 · Worser is an actual word in major dictionaries. It is depreciated, but that is different than wrong. Which means that, lexically, this would be a valid word. However, the OP specifically asked if the word is grammatically correct, hence, the answer is no as per the argument presented in my answer.
Idiom for a situation or event that makes one poor or even poorer?
网页2019年10月7日 · The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Also: the cupboards are bare, e.g. "I wish I had something to offer you to eat, but we haven't done our grocery shopping this week, and I'm afraid the cupboards are bare" (freedictionary). Living from hand to mouth, struggling to make ends meet or to keep the wolf from the door. –
grammar - Which grammatical features does English lack, which it …
网页2014年8月17日 · I think English is expressively poorer for the lack of a mood system, which we have let rot to the point where the subjunctive is only useful in very limited idioms. It prevents us from leaving consideration open to alternative realities and pushes us too far into a logically-positivistic framing of everything. This has been good for us as a ...
Is there a verb that means “to make poor”? [closed]
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grammaticality - Is "more poorly" an appropriate phrase? - English ...
网页2014年1月20日 · It works; here "more" is acting as an adverb, and an adverb can modify another adverb. The has 13 cites for "more poorly", and the has 83 (including 8 for "even more poorly" and 1 for "more and more poorly"). Google returns about 826k results. So it's obviously being used and understood. And, as J. M. points out, it's …
What is the difference between "poverty" and "poorness"?
网页2015年4月22日 · That’s not true. There are some senses (2b and 2c in the definitions quoted in Marius’ answer) where poorness is more common and idiomatic than poverty, and where poverty might appear very odd or indeed mean something else: “the poverty of these examples” refers to scarcity; “the poorness of these examples” refers to quality; and similarly with “the poverty/poorness of the food ...
meaning - "Bad" or "Poor" is more severe? - English Language
网页In the thread, poor is implied in a sense that it is more severe than bad. I myself would choose to replace poor with terrible. But I don't see anything implying that in dictionaries. Is that always the case— poor is worse than bad —if the two words are used under the same context? I agree with you that the order used here is poor or even bad.
grammaticality - Is it correct to say "Til death do us apart ...
网页2019年6月19日 · I N. take thee N. to my wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part, according to God's holy ordinance; and thereto I plight thee my troth. The 'N.'s, of course, are replaced by the couple's Christian names.
What's a word that means "once rich but now poor"?
网页2023年1月24日 · I think "once-rich author" (note the dash) is the best answer so far. Other suggestions imply that the author is poverty-stricken, broke, or bankrupt, like: Impoverished, ruined, beggared, distressed, insolvent, bankrupt, and bust.
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