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comparative
Adjective
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You use comparative to show that something is not great but is better than something else.
They lived in the comparative comfort of her uncle's house.
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You use comparative to show that someone or something is not quite a beginner, etc., but almost the same as one.
The absent father was a comparative stranger to the son.
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Comparative study is a form of study that looks at how things are alike and different.
The study of how the anatomy of animals are alike and different is called comparative anatomy.
comparative
Noun
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A comparative is a form of a comparable adjective. You use it to show that something is "more big", "more good", etc.
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is a comparable adjective and bigger is the comparative.
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' is a comparable adjective. Its comparative is more intelligent.
My students always forget the -er in comparatives.
cost
Noun
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The cost of something is the price that a person pays for it.
What is the cost of the car?
cost
Verb
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When you say that a thing costs, you say that one must pay in order to buy it.
That diamond ring costs a great deal of money.
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One may say that an action costs a certain bad result.
It cost me my job when I broke the machine.
To commit a crime will cost you.
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When you estimate a cost or set a cost, you cost a thing.
The repair man costed the work to fix the car.