"Poorer" vs. "more poor" - English Language & Usage Stack …
2014年9月22日 · As a non-native speaker I am curious about the everyday usage of more poor in contrast to poorer. The dictionary dictates poorer as the correct form, with some allowing both forms. According to Google Ngram Viewer poorer is more common in books by an immense factor of 100. Is more poor a colloquialism? If so, are there cultural differences?
Idiom for a situation or event that makes one poor or even poorer?
2019年10月7日 · The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Also: the cupboards are bare, e.g. "I wish I had something to offer you to eat, but we haven't done our grocery shopping this week, and I'm afraid the cupboards are bare" (freedictionary). Living from hand to mouth, struggling to make ends meet or to keep the wolf from the door. –
Expression: Be the poorer for something - English Language
2017年5月23日 · To be the poorer for (something): To be more poor as a result of (something). Since the most appropriate of the Chambers definitions of "poor" is "in a sorry condition". To be the poorer for (something): To be in a more sorry condition as a result of (something) But I question the need for this, as the definition is tautological.
grammaticality - Is "more poorly" an appropriate phrase? - English ...
2014年1月20日 · The British National Corpus has 13 cites for "more poorly", and the Corpus of Contemporary American English has 83 (including 8 for "even more poorly" and 1 for "more and more poorly").
The meaning and the origins of "everything's gone pear-shaped."
2011年6月22日 · The OED entry (updated March 2003) for pear-shaped, adj. (paywalled), defines sense 3 as . colloquial (chiefly British, orig. R.A.F. slang).
grammatical number - Is "everyone" singular or plural? - English ...
2011年4月8日 · According to Diana Hacker's "A Canadian Writer's Reference" (p.123 section G1-d) you treat most indefinite pronouns as singular so the answer is "was."
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2014年10月22日 · Note the POS: it's a noun formed from an adjective, like "the poorer." It's because such a form makes eminent sense that it had to be listed in dictionaries. So, yes, worser is a word; use it where that is meant.
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What is meant by "steep learning curve"? - English Language
2011年7月28日 · [Edit, ten years later]: I just noticed a post from February 8, 2013, by the linguist Ben Zimmer, which identifies the 1970s as when the popular usage developed. The post (also available here) gives two examples each from that decade …
grammaticality - Is it correct to say "Til death do us apart ...
2019年6月19日 · I N. take thee N. to my wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part, according to God's holy ordinance; and thereto I plight thee my troth. The 'N.'s, of course, are replaced by the couple's Christian names.