Other ways of making comparisons

1 not as … as
Sue isn’t as confident as June.

REMEMBER:

The sentence above does not mean the same as:

June isn’t as confident as Sue.

If there is only a small difference, we can use quite.

Rob isn’t quite as messy as his sister.

2 Comparing two things which are the same

She’s as funny as her mother.

3 less
Less is the opposite of more.
Living in Beijing is less expensive than living in London.

4 Making comparisons with nouns

She has more shoes than any woman I know.
There’s less water in this pool than in any other pool in the city.
There are fewer people who eat red meat nowadays.

We use fewer with countable nouns and less with uncountable nouns. Nowadays,
many people use less in both cases, but this is considered to be incorrect by many
people.
There are fewer students in my class than in yours.
not:
There are less people in my class than in yours.

5 Other useful expressions for comparing things

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Other ways of making comparisons
a If two things are nearly the same:
Her new coat is very similar to her old one.
The new team is more or less the same as the old one.

b If there is no difference between two objects:

She looks exactly the same as her mother.

c If there is a small difference between two objects:

His suit is slightly different from before.

d If there is a big difference between two objects:

The Internet is completely different from how it was ten years ago.

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