English · Ancient Civilizations
Comparatives & superlatives with quantifiers
Measuring one ancient civilization against another
6 minutes
The academic content is in Arabic, as at the BAC and as in the app.
What the syllabus expects from you
- Comparative/superlative of adjectives (regular & irregular)
- Quantifiers in comparative structures (more/less/fewer ... than)
The method
- Compare two civilizations/sites on one criterion at a time before stacking comparisons
The common mistakes
- Double comparative ('more bigger')
- fewer vs less confusion (countable/uncountable)
From the lesson
A guide points to two sets of ruins. "This temple is old," she says, "but that pyramid is older."
The vocabulary
- ancient vs modern (قديم مقابل حديث)
- the largest (الأكبر)
- fewer/less (أقل)
What is not on the syllabus
- Comparatives of equality (treated in Astronomy/Education units)