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Comparatives of long & short adjectives (education systems)

Build the right comparative for short and long adjectives

  • Foreign languages important
  • Literature and philosophy important

6 minutes

The academic content is in Arabic, as at the BAC and as in the app.

What the syllabus expects from you

  • Comparatives of long & short adjectives applied to education systems

The method

  1. Fix one comparison axis (duration, cost, structure) before comparing two systems

The common mistakes

  • Double comparative ('more bigger')

From the lesson

Read how two school systems compare. Some differences are marked with a short word plus an ending.

The vocabulary

  • more demanding (أكثر صرامة)
  • the strictest (الأكثر صرامة)

What is not on the syllabus

  • Quantifiers most/all/few (next concept)
  • similar to/like/unlike (next concept)

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