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Comparatives and superlatives

Learning English Grammar

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The Bus Is Easier Than Cycling and the Traffic Was Much Busier Than Normal

To make comparative forms of most adjectives and adverbs with two or more syllables, we use more. For example, impatient has three syllables, impatient. So the comparative of impatient is more impatient. To emphasize how something changes, we can repeat comparatives or the word more with and in the middle like this. The bus went slower and slower. And people became more and more impatient.

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