2008年2月27日 · What makes 'strict' (and whatever other words are posible) able to be both isn't a matter for rules as much as it's a matter for usage. People say 'stricter' and people say 'more strict'. I can assure you that 'more strict' is more common where I am from, and I hear and see both in the media and in writing.

2010年4月27日 · comparative stricter, superlative strictest strict definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta. Click to expand...

2008年2月27日 · Grammatically speaking, the word 'stricter' means 'more strict'! No one (outside a standard language exam perhaps) is going to call saying 'more strict' incorrect. Grammatically or otherwise. It is not a mistake, and it is not dialectal. It is an exception to the rule.

2013年11月25日 · Help me check 2 multi choice questions: 1. Of my parents, my father is _____. A. the stricter B. the strictest C. stricter D. strict 2.

2022年6月24日 · Accepting [that]: Accepting that Phil has had a breakdown, he doesn’t necessarily present a risk.. The situation, that Phil has had a breakdown, is already known to the speaker, and probably the listener; it is an accepted truth, a factual conditional.

2023年6月7日 · What students need to know about short answers. Although it can be difficult for students to produce quickly in natural speech, the rule for short answers is simplicity itself – say “Yes” or “No” and then copy the subject and auxiliary verb from the question, adding “n’t” or similar for negative answers.

2023年6月7日 · Students ask each other questions about their families like “Are you the angriest person in your family?” and “Is your father stricter than your mother?” and answer “Yes” to all of them. Perhaps after follow up questions like “What do you do when you are angry?”, they guess if the initial “Yes” answer was true or not.

2020年10月28日 · I often teach my students both words or expressions even outside of the typical "British English / American English" units, I even tell them the Australian variation when I know it, I always accept American variations in tests when someone uses them (even though we've only learned the British so far - and some other fellow teachers are much ...