I'm teacher Prix and I want to help you talk to anyone anywhere anytime in
English I've told you guys that I'm from Brazil I'm from a small town in the
countryside of São Paulo state now I live in Sao Paulo which is a big city
today I want to make a comparison between living in the country and living
in the city after that I will show you how I used comparative to do that so
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different kinds of videos to help you improve your English skills and become
more confident speakers so here we go living in the country has many
advantages for example it's cheaper than living in the city the cost of living in
the country is definitely lower houses and apartments are bigger in the country
your money can get you bigger houses yeah right now I live in a small
apartment in San Paulo people are friendlier in the country yeah I think
because it's a small place people get together and are more helpful than
people in the city the people in the country are also more patient than the
people in the city living in the country is also less dangerous yeah definitely
better than the city now living in the country has disadvantages too it's
definitely slower than the city it's also less interesting than the city nothing
happens now let's think about the city the city is definitely more interesting
than the country there are many things you can do you also have more job
opportunities than in the country however I think people in the city are
more stressed than people in the country the traffic is worse too I have friends who
spend more than two hours to get to work it's horrible I also believe people in
the city are more impatient than people in the country because they don't have
much time but as I said there are more things
to do in the city the entertainment options are better than the ones in the
country there are two big problems in in the city pollution and safety the city's
more polluted than the country so that can be very difficult sometimes it's
also more dangerous so you have to be very careful so which one do you prefer
living in the city or living in the country me I definitely prefer living in
the city although the city is more polluted and dangerous than the country
there are many things you can do here and more opportunities than in the
country so I think living in the city is better than living in the country now
that was an introduction I used comparatives to talk about living in the
city and living in the country I compared two situations and that's how
we use comparatives in English to compare different things to talk about
the differences between two or more things in English if you want to make
comparisons you can use more or you can use less look at this example from the
introduction living in the city is more dangerous than living in the country you
can also say the opposite living in the country is less dangerous
than living in the city so what's the difference between more and less more
less so when you make comparisons with more you're indicating more okay plus
when you're making comparisons with less not so much okay basically to make
comparisons you will need more or less plus an adjective okay a quality
something you can use to compare after that you use the word than
for example living in the city one situation living in the city is more
dangerous than living in the country okay
or I can say living in the country is less dangerous than living in the city
so to make comparisons you need adjectives you need qualities beautiful
interesting dangerous patient impatient polluted good and so many other words
adjectives words that will give a quality to a noun okay or to something
let's see more examples from the introduction the people in the country
the people I'm talking about the people the people in the country are more
patient than people in the city now let's take a look at a different example
living in the country the situation one living in the country is cheaper then
living in the city so if you paid attention here I didn't use the word
more this is the first confusion we have when we are learning comparatives
sometimes you don't use the word more okay but in what situations in English
we have many adjectives okay but for this explanation we will have two kinds
of adjectives long adjectives and short adjectives interesting is a long
adjective it has more than one syllable it's long okay so in this case you need
to use more the city is more interesting than the country now the adjective cheap
Priscilla what is cheap cheap is the opposite of expensive okay
sheep is a one-syllable word it's a short word so in this case bye bye more no
more but there's a catch you need to add something to the word so
cheap becomes cheaper okay fast becomes faster tall taller so going back to the
example living in the country is cheaper than living in the city this will happen
to all short adjectives okay now for two syllable words that end in Y okay for
example easy happy friendly pretty you will remove the Y bye-bye
Y and you will add IER prettier easier happier and remember no more okay
no more now Priscilla you talked about more how about less remember less
with the comparative less you do not use less with short adjectives only long
ones so if your adjective is short you cannot use less you cannot use the
comparison less so you cannot say that it's less easy no okay that that's not
possible alright so with the word less with the
comparative less you only use long adjectives this house is less beautiful
than that house okay now let's take a look at another example I think living
in the city is better than living in the country what is this word better when we
are talking about comparatives there are some adjectives that are some words
that change completely okay they are irregular cases so better is the
comparative of good good you can't say "gooder"
no okay no no no you have to say better there are more cases for example bad the
comparative of bad is worse there you go so this is a basic explanation in
context now you learned that with comparatives you compare two different
situations or two different things okay so now I have a challenge for you I want
to see here in the comments three comparisons between living in the city
and living in the country I want to see your opinion your examples which one do
you prefer living in the city or living in the country and then write your
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