More strict vs stricter | Page 2 | UsingEnglish. com ESL Forum Grammatically speaking, the word 'stricter' means 'more strict'! No one (outside a standard language exam perhaps) is going to call saying 'more strict' incorrect Grammatically or otherwise It is not a mistake, and it is not dialectal It is an exception to the rule
Comparative | UsingEnglish. com ESL Forum Help me check 2 multi choice questions: 1 Of my parents, my father is _____ A the stricter B the strictest C stricter D strict 2 He worked
More strict or stricter? | UsingEnglish. com ESL Forum Hi I heard "more strict" the other day and it sounded a little odd The rule goes that if you have a single syllable adjective, then add "er" As "strict" fits that description, I'd go with "stricter" That, of course, is not to say that in some parts of the US, Canada, or even the UK, "more strict" is being used and considered "natural"
makeup vs. make up | UsingEnglish. com ESL Forum The alternative spelling make-up is favored by the Oxford Dictionary and thus is often considered to be British, while makeup, being preferred by Merriam Webster's dictionary, is the generally accepted American spelling
How to teach short answers - UsingEnglish. com Although no one has ever been more than mildly confused by someone answering “Yes, I am” or “Yes, I like” to questions like “Do you like Russian food?”, it is well worth spending some class time on short answers like “No, there aren’t” and “Yes, he would” That’s mainly because mastery of short answers could help students stop killing conversations in exchanges like
yeast and east, woo and ooze | UsingEnglish. com ESL Forum In BE there is a clear audible difference between 'east' and 'yeast' but if you try to say them with clenched teeth (that is, without dropping your lower jaw for the j ) the difference is hard to make (and the stricter you are in enforcing the immobility of the jaw the closer hard gets to impossible ;-) ) Thank you, Bobk
The other side of the mirror - UsingEnglish. com They are bound to have developed some very specific ideas of their own as to what should happen in class I have seen this in their casual comments in and out of the classroom, and in evaluations I kept asking for more grammar instruction or stricter attention to correction