There are many ways to compare in English and in this lesson, I’ll teach you a simple structure that you can use. Watch this free grammar lesson and then practice with the quiz.
If it were two hours later it would be half as long until midnight as it would be if it were an hour later. What time is it?
dejandanilovic
I know the right answer, but I’ll wait until someone else respond :) It’s between 18:00 and 00:00 :)
Merlin
excuse me,
I think you understood the lesson very will. so, can you help me pleas..
what is the mistake here “He’s as happy as be” ?
Ali
I think in last word (be)… right?
partito
realy i like this lesson thank you very much
pasang
rock>> It was agood name for our teacher
maeen
Thank you for this lesson. Very important.
Juan Carlos
The web side give me help a lot. Thank you!
I really love you
Lucy
I thank you too. By the way an answer in the quiz make me laugh. :D
birqan
Thanks teacher.
This lesson was as easy as drinking water. ;P
Swy
1st tx;
1 ? Ive got plz:Do always we use plural verb 4
” news “?!
4instance:News r showed.
Am I right?!!
fatiima8
4give me,I was totally wrong,,
I mean singular verbs after news not plural ones!!!!!!!
Do we should singular verb 4 news always???????
fatiima8
Fatima, let me explain it to you. I know that text is long, but read it, you will learn a lot from it.
We have countable and uncountable nouns in the grammar. I am sure that you can differenciate count nouns such as apple, banana, ball, glass etc. from non-count nouns such as sugar, coffee, flour, milk and so on. You must keep in mind that nouns such as information, news, music, progress, luggage, business, furniture, advice, knowledge don’t have plural, therefore here is your answer that you have been looking for. You always use them in singular. E.g. What time is news on television? The same thing with information, you cannot say I gave you a information, but you can say I gave you some information.
Ok, now when you know the difference, let me add something more in order to teach not only you, but everyone who reads this text.
Nouns that have irregular plural are: Foot-feet, man-men, woman, women, child-children, mouse-mice, tooth-teeth, goose-geese and so forth.
The following nouns have the same form in singular and plural: Sheep-sheep, means-means, species-species, deer-deer, fish-fish, series-series, and so on.
Compound nouns form their plural by adding S to the principal word: Sister-in-law-sisters-in-law, writing-table, writing-tables etc.
Sometimes we use a plural noun for one thing that has two parts. For example: Trousers, pyjamas, glasses, binoculars, scissors. E.g. Those are nice jeans, or that is a nice pair of jeans.
I’m glad I had an opportunity to explain this to you, so read and learn, it’s not as difficult as it seems to be. Take care :)
Merlin
I see that I’ve omitted one letter. I’ve meant an information and not a information, however both are wrong :D
Merlin
Hi,
How can I thank u Merlin!!
Hope all is well with u.
” The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything “!
Have a ball.
fatiima8
You are completely right! :)
Merlin
yah,, your right its help us. thanks for the effort….
totong
He He .. Thank you very much sir !!!
It’s as cold as ICE ! :D
DaZun
thank you too. By the way an answer in the quiz make me laugh
mansour
John, tell me what is the correct way to ask someone for permission? Would you mind if I open the window, or would you mind if I opened the window? Respond ASAP.
Merlin
“would you mind if I opened the window?” is the correct form. Also, you can say: “Would you mind opening the window?”.
Carlos
Carlos, can you explain it will? cause opened is past tense and would you mind if i opened the window is not done yet…
totong
john, your lesson and way of teaching is superb.
tarun
think you for this lesson.
Merveille
thank you for your helping us
rashwan
this lesson was good as always, thanks Jon. BTW U r as good as the others teachers, see u dude next week.
Efrain
YOU ARE VERY GOOD THANKS
Basem
great information, it was so useful
Gab
Hello,could I say ‘such cold as ice’ and etc.. is it correct?
egidijus1992
Can plz tel me frm where should i begin to learn english because in english i stand equal to zero n i ve to improve my englsih within 3 months then my exam of english will occur.
barbie
Dear Valen,
Hope all is well with you ,
My writting and reading is Excellent but my vocabullery and grammer is not good i wish you to run me on easy path or way to learn Excellent english speaker . thank you very much from your lessenons which i have study it was really apprecaited,
sanaullahjan2003
sanaulahjan2003, read, read, read, read a looooooooooooooooooot, practice, listen, speak and write, you can also to correspond with foreign citizens. If you want to improve yourself, do it!
Merlin
On that way you will see where you make mistakes and learn from them. I made one in previous comment, but next time I won’t.
Merlin
Merlin, thanks, you encourages us to learn,,,, keep it up…. you see you bears fruits.
totong
awsome
marimfoungoulie
thnku..
jia
Thanks for your help
Gustavo
hi the video doesn’t work
mahmoudlutfi82
is there anything wrong with your site. the video can’t be played.thank you
mahmoudlutfi82
thank you
ikiller
thank you
Yaya
Teacher Jon the comparative structure well done for me and i understood it many thanks
Rashid
which are correct.
verb after subject or
to be after subject?
actually i’m still confuse with the lesson.
please answer my comment
difa
thank you for your lesson
iromei
thanks
zahid
Valeu!
marcio americo
thank you
mcamposm
Thanks Jon, you are a good teacher and your lesson is very interesting.
lc20000
Grazie dreossi =)
Jo
damned ____ exercises again.
dont use it plz.
anon
Thanks
gabor
this helps me..
nstaerker
thank you so mutch the lessons is very good
reem
Very good lesson and very good website, I am learning a lot of small things from this website.
Thanks a lot.
Imran
Thanks. I am so glad as cheer as you in this lesson to everybody. And I hope my English as well as your ones because I want to more achievement.
Poland
thank u sir for this lesson
mahmoudamin
it’s very easy
mahmoudamin
thank you
this is nice lesson
arwa
you are not as good as a valen…
batur
Thank you for your respectful and constructive criticism. -_-
engVid Moderator
thanks very much
musabap9
lets learn english
gustavo
the teacher is great as a world
gustavo
thanks very much
jojo jomana jomana
thank you so much for this lesson
mouhamed
thanks sir Jon,,, good lesson… hope you have more of this…. God Bless you….
totong
I just want to say ………..
Thank u engvid.com
barkha
Wow! I’m a teacher and use Engvid every Monday. However, I won’t be using this one because of the Sarah Palin flash———I’m an avid Sarah Palin fan and I was put off by implication. Can we leave politics out of English Grammar, please!!!!!
hi nice the instructinc at learnd english thanks teacher
ochoamcmurray
Hi teacher. I’m not good in Comparatice Structure YET. Tks
Eliete
Thanks
Anmol
You are right ! they are great gifts. I have been learning English from books and there is no cpsraoimon to watching video to learn , they ( the video) make it easier to understand, as you have a live teacher infront of you. This is really great. Thank you engVid! You have made leraning fun, finally.
Mandeep
Nice Lesson teacher!
carlosserra
Thanks Jon!!!
Tural
fatimii are you fram iran to
elham
ty vm teacher
omarabdalaziz
Thanks teacher.
Ali Murad
thank you JON for this lesson… ;)
mickey
thanks a lot teacher !!
you are really wonderful
I’m so pumped about this lesson
Tiger
we mustn’t be dumbed
Tiger
we mustn’t be dumbed
Tiger
It’s easy lesson.;)
Zibi-Poland
Thank you ;)
anna1206
Thank you for a nice lesson!
akibelle
thanks for supporting!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ben jackson adolphe
Thank you!
Ashish
nice video
sam
You are a great teacher!! thank you so much for the interesting lessons
Victor
You are as good as the others teachers of engvid…
Victor
hahahah xD but it was so funny when I read that sentence about “ass smell” I was like O_o lol thank you teacher :D
jimmysaenz90
nice and simple lesson
hussein syd
Thanks :)
It’s easy to understand and helps a lot!
momo1
Thanks a lot.
panithan
Thank you Jon!!
Regards!
franalver
Thankyou so much for this lesson… I just love your way of teaching!
Hi John,
Coul you please explain this structure to me: “as soon as possible” and as much volunteers as possible” and similar others?
I am look forward to hearing from you
Tam
ntntam
thx john
khayati
Thank you very much Mr.John.
nice lesson.
Mr.Ag
Thanks got 100%.
Abdul Qayum
thanks!But I have change some words…
uLan
Thank you, I really appreciate that Mr.John.
Hussein Ali Baqir
Terrific!
Iamhere.
Thank you!
Iamhere.
Thx a lot Mr Jhon…………..well done
rafi ghan
veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery good
ehab sabry
Easy explication Jon.
Thanks!!
Josmer
Thanks, Jon.
Sonia1234
I think that we have to write “a” before the noun, anyone with me?
Mannoshe
I got 4 correct out of 4. Thank you.
KrzysztofK
Thank you.
KrzysztofK
ohh it’s so amazing…learn here…
And this video..help me alot..thanks
and Merlin..thank you for your explain…
hqueiros
Thanks a lot
Vivimi
Thanks you so much.
Marta Lopez
easy and useful lesson
k.abed
100%
k.abed
I am not as good as when I was with you.
is this sentence correct?
gowri devi
Thank you Jon
kheireddine007
thanks!
shihai182
4/4 good:)
Sunny Muffin
Thanks my friend!
Carlos139
Thanks very much
Jon
vahidvahidi
Thanks Jon this was a good lesson. This makes me feel happy.wooooooooooow very good at (subject +verb +as+adjective+as) examples of verbs like run jump swim ride write etc.adjitive like :the short is blue,the size of the shirt is 12 inches +6 inches.
Noppapat27
Thank you Mr. Jon.
Alex-1956
Oups ! The sound is as bad as an amateur porn movie!
Papy Jeff
We apologize! Our newer videos have much better sound.
engVid Moderator
Thank you so much ! Sorry for the comparison…
Papy Jeff
Great content!! Thank you teacher (=
saymowan
this lesson is really helpful, thanks a lot for it
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141 COMMENTS
thank you so much for this lesson
thank you JON . you rockkk
If it were two hours later it would be half as long until midnight as it would be if it were an hour later. What time is it?
I know the right answer, but I’ll wait until someone else respond :) It’s between 18:00 and 00:00 :)
excuse me,
I think you understood the lesson very will. so, can you help me pleas..
what is the mistake here “He’s as happy as be” ?
I think in last word (be)… right?
realy i like this lesson thank you very much
rock>> It was agood name for our teacher
Thank you for this lesson. Very important.
The web side give me help a lot. Thank you!
I really love you
I thank you too. By the way an answer in the quiz make me laugh. :D
Thanks teacher.
This lesson was as easy as drinking water. ;P
1st tx;
1 ? Ive got plz:Do always we use plural verb 4
” news “?!
4instance:News r showed.
Am I right?!!
4give me,I was totally wrong,,
I mean singular verbs after news not plural ones!!!!!!!
Do we should singular verb 4 news always???????
Fatima, let me explain it to you. I know that text is long, but read it, you will learn a lot from it.
We have countable and uncountable nouns in the grammar. I am sure that you can differenciate count nouns such as apple, banana, ball, glass etc. from non-count nouns such as sugar, coffee, flour, milk and so on. You must keep in mind that nouns such as information, news, music, progress, luggage, business, furniture, advice, knowledge don’t have plural, therefore here is your answer that you have been looking for. You always use them in singular. E.g. What time is news on television? The same thing with information, you cannot say I gave you a information, but you can say I gave you some information.
Ok, now when you know the difference, let me add something more in order to teach not only you, but everyone who reads this text.
Nouns that have irregular plural are: Foot-feet, man-men, woman, women, child-children, mouse-mice, tooth-teeth, goose-geese and so forth.
The following nouns have the same form in singular and plural: Sheep-sheep, means-means, species-species, deer-deer, fish-fish, series-series, and so on.
Compound nouns form their plural by adding S to the principal word: Sister-in-law-sisters-in-law, writing-table, writing-tables etc.
Sometimes we use a plural noun for one thing that has two parts. For example: Trousers, pyjamas, glasses, binoculars, scissors. E.g. Those are nice jeans, or that is a nice pair of jeans.
I’m glad I had an opportunity to explain this to you, so read and learn, it’s not as difficult as it seems to be. Take care :)
I see that I’ve omitted one letter. I’ve meant an information and not a information, however both are wrong :D
Hi,
How can I thank u Merlin!!
Hope all is well with u.
” The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything “!
Have a ball.
You are completely right! :)
yah,, your right its help us. thanks for the effort….
He He .. Thank you very much sir !!!
It’s as cold as ICE ! :D
thank you too. By the way an answer in the quiz make me laugh
John, tell me what is the correct way to ask someone for permission? Would you mind if I open the window, or would you mind if I opened the window? Respond ASAP.
“would you mind if I opened the window?” is the correct form. Also, you can say: “Would you mind opening the window?”.
Carlos, can you explain it will? cause opened is past tense and would you mind if i opened the window is not done yet…
john, your lesson and way of teaching is superb.
think you for this lesson.
thank you for your helping us
this lesson was good as always, thanks Jon. BTW U r as good as the others teachers, see u dude next week.
YOU ARE VERY GOOD THANKS
great information, it was so useful
Hello,could I say ‘such cold as ice’ and etc.. is it correct?
Can plz tel me frm where should i begin to learn english because in english i stand equal to zero n i ve to improve my englsih within 3 months then my exam of english will occur.
Dear Valen,
Hope all is well with you ,
My writting and reading is Excellent but my vocabullery and grammer is not good i wish you to run me on easy path or way to learn Excellent english speaker . thank you very much from your lessenons which i have study it was really apprecaited,
sanaulahjan2003, read, read, read, read a looooooooooooooooooot, practice, listen, speak and write, you can also to correspond with foreign citizens. If you want to improve yourself, do it!
On that way you will see where you make mistakes and learn from them. I made one in previous comment, but next time I won’t.
Merlin, thanks, you encourages us to learn,,,, keep it up…. you see you bears fruits.
awsome
thnku..
Thanks for your help
hi the video doesn’t work
is there anything wrong with your site. the video can’t be played.thank you
thank you
thank you
Teacher Jon the comparative structure well done for me and i understood it many thanks
which are correct.
verb after subject or
to be after subject?
actually i’m still confuse with the lesson.
please answer my comment
thank you for your lesson
thanks
Valeu!
thank you
Thanks Jon, you are a good teacher and your lesson is very interesting.
Grazie dreossi =)
damned ____ exercises again.
dont use it plz.
Thanks
this helps me..
thank you so mutch the lessons is very good
Very good lesson and very good website, I am learning a lot of small things from this website.
Thanks a lot.
Thanks. I am so glad as cheer as you in this lesson to everybody. And I hope my English as well as your ones because I want to more achievement.
thank u sir for this lesson
it’s very easy
thank you
this is nice lesson
you are not as good as a valen…
Thank you for your respectful and constructive criticism. -_-
thanks very much
lets learn english
the teacher is great as a world
thanks very much
thank you so much for this lesson
thanks sir Jon,,, good lesson… hope you have more of this…. God Bless you….
I just want to say ………..
Thank u engvid.com
Wow! I’m a teacher and use Engvid every Monday. However, I won’t be using this one because of the Sarah Palin flash———I’m an avid Sarah Palin fan and I was put off by implication. Can we leave politics out of English Grammar, please!!!!!
We’ll continue using whatever we want in our lessons, but I did put Obama in our new lesson on using the passive tense to avoid responsibility — just for you.
Amazing stuff John, really helpful.
hi nice the instructinc at learnd english thanks teacher
Hi teacher. I’m not good in Comparatice Structure YET. Tks
Thanks
You are right ! they are great gifts. I have been learning English from books and there is no cpsraoimon to watching video to learn , they ( the video) make it easier to understand, as you have a live teacher infront of you. This is really great. Thank you engVid! You have made leraning fun, finally.
Nice Lesson teacher!
Thanks Jon!!!
fatimii are you fram iran to
ty vm teacher
Thanks teacher.
thank you JON for this lesson… ;)
thanks a lot teacher !!
you are really wonderful
I’m so pumped about this lesson
we mustn’t be dumbed
we mustn’t be dumbed
It’s easy lesson.;)
Thank you ;)
Thank you for a nice lesson!
thanks for supporting!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you!
nice video
You are a great teacher!! thank you so much for the interesting lessons
You are as good as the others teachers of engvid…
hahahah xD but it was so funny when I read that sentence about “ass smell” I was like O_o lol thank you teacher :D
nice and simple lesson
Thanks :)
It’s easy to understand and helps a lot!
Thanks a lot.
Thank you Jon!!
Regards!
Thankyou so much for this lesson… I just love your way of teaching!
I have learnt a lot
:poop:
I’m approving this comment because poop is funny.
Thanks a lot, teaching me good lesson
Thanks a lot
good lesson but bad sound :S:S:
thanks a lot .
Hi John,
Coul you please explain this structure to me: “as soon as possible” and as much volunteers as possible” and similar others?
I am look forward to hearing from you
Tam
thx john
Thank you very much Mr.John.
nice lesson.
Thanks got 100%.
thanks!But I have change some words…
Thank you, I really appreciate that Mr.John.
Terrific!
Thank you!
Thx a lot Mr Jhon…………..well done
veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery good
Easy explication Jon.
Thanks!!
Thanks, Jon.
I think that we have to write “a” before the noun, anyone with me?
I got 4 correct out of 4. Thank you.
Thank you.
ohh it’s so amazing…learn here…
And this video..help me alot..thanks
and Merlin..thank you for your explain…
Thanks a lot
Thanks you so much.
easy and useful lesson
100%
I am not as good as when I was with you.
is this sentence correct?
Thank you Jon
thanks!
4/4 good:)
Thanks my friend!
Thanks very much
Jon
Thanks Jon this was a good lesson. This makes me feel happy.wooooooooooow very good at (subject +verb +as+adjective+as) examples of verbs like run jump swim ride write etc.adjitive like :the short is blue,the size of the shirt is 12 inches +6 inches.
Thank you Mr. Jon.
Oups ! The sound is as bad as an amateur porn movie!
We apologize! Our newer videos have much better sound.
Thank you so much ! Sorry for the comparison…
Great content!! Thank you teacher (=
this lesson is really helpful, thanks a lot for it
Thank you teacher Jon.
Thank you!