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Lesson Transcript

Do you know how to use comparatives in English?
Welcome to Three Step English Practice by EnglishClass101.com. In this lesson, you will practice how to use comparatives in English.
Let’s look at the main dialogue.
Two people are having a conversation.
Yes and no. Starting a business is easier than you might think, but getting your first customers is harder than any other thing you’ll have to do.
That’s a good point. Lucky for me, I already have a few private clients.
That’s great! Besides, the best advertisement is word of mouth. You’ll be fine!
In this conversation, this character
Is talking about what starting up a business is like to this character.
By saying that starting a business is "easier than" he might think, she is comparing how easy starting a business is, to how easy or difficult he may think it is.
Then, by saying getting your first customers is "harder than" any other thing you'll have to do, she's comparing how hard getting customers is to how hard everything else involved in starting a business is.
In both sentences, she uses comparative adjectives which are formed by appending "-er" to an adjective. The other way of doing this is by adding "more" before the adjective. This is usually done with longer adjectives which are more than two syllables.
Let’s practice with this grammar more in this lesson.

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