2019-03-06 Grammar: comparing noun quantities

Greg Malivuk
gmalivuk@staffordhouse.com
http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - Notes from all classes
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p. 171 - the rest of the sentences
My English skills are improving a little faster than my partner’s.
My family is much smaller than Daniel’s family.
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You can use numbers to show how different two things are.
I am 5 years older than my partner.
	I’m 5 inches taller than my sister. I’m 40 pounds heavier than my cousin. It’s 20 miles farther away.
I am twice as old as my partner. / My partner is half as old as I am.
	I am three/four/five times as old as my partner. This house is 75% as expensive as that house.
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p. 172 focus 2 - Comparisons of Noun Quantity
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I make _____ more money than I did last year.
	(a bit / somewhat / slightly // significantly / far / a lot)
- With “little”, “few”, “much”, and “many”, it depends on whether the noun is countable:
I make a little more money than I did. / I make much more money than I did.
I have a few more friends than I did. / I have many more friends than I did.

I make as much money as I did last year and I have as many friends as I had last year.
I have as little money and as few friends as I had last year.
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p. 175 exercise 8 - Ask your partner about this information. Then make sentences about you and your partner. (Try to think of two sentences for each one, but if you can’t that’s fine.)
1 Neither of us has taken the TOEFL.
2 I have one more room in my apartment than my partner.
3 I know one more language than my partner.
  I know 50% more languages than my partner.
4 I want one more child than my partner.
5 I have visted 3 more countries than my partner.
6 My family has one more person than my partner’s.