11 People and places
C o m p a ra tive s tru c tu re s
Structures that show unequal comparisons:
1
more/less + adjective/adverb +
than
Livinq in the countryside is health ie r than
Traffic in towns moves more slowlv than in
living in a city.
villages.
2
m orel few er! less + noun/noun phrase +
than
There are more DeoDle in this town than
there used to be.
There are few er superm arkets in countrv
villages than in regional towns.
3
not as + adjective/adverb + as
This town is not as prosperous as the others in
this region.
The people in London aren't as friendlv as
those in my home town.
U not as +
much/many + noun/noun phrase + as
Not as manv people visit New Zealand as
Australia.
There isn 't as much sun in the north of the
countrv as in the south.
