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  2. Comparison (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    The comparative degrees are frequently associated with adjectives and adverbs because these words take the -er suffix or modifying word more or less. (e.g., faster, more intelligent, less wasteful). Comparison can also, however, appear when no adjective or adverb is present, for instance with nouns (e.g., more men than women).

  3. English adjectives - Wikipedia

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    Adjectives Nouns Inflection: comparative (-er), superlative (-est) plural (-s) Typical function of the related phrases: pre-head modifier of noun, predicative complement subject, object, predicative complement Typical pre-head modifier: adverb phrase adjective phrase Occurrence with determinatives: do not head phrases containing determinatives

  4. Comparative - Wikipedia

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    If an adjective has two comparative markers, it is known as a double comparative (e.g. more louder, worser). The use of double comparatives is generally associated with Appalachian English and African American Vernacular English , though they were common in Early Modern English and were used by Shakespeare.

  5. Comparison of video codecs - Wikipedia

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    Subjective Comparison of Modern Video Codecs Scientifically accurate subjective comparison using 50 experts and SAMVIQ methodology 2006 Feb. DivX 6.0, Xvid 1.1.0, x264, WMV 9.0 (2 bitrates for every codec) PSNR via VQM via SSIM comparison was also done MPEG-2 Video Decoders Comparison Objective MPEG-2 Decoders comparison 2006 May.

  6. Adjective - Wikipedia

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    An adjective (abbreviated adj.) is a word that describes or defines a noun or noun phrase.Its semantic role is to change information given by the noun. Traditionally, adjectives are considered one of the main parts of speech of the English language, although historically they were classed together with nouns. [1]

  7. Glossary of video terms - Wikipedia

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    The range of signal frequencies that a piece of audio or video equipment can encode or decode; the difference between the limiting frequencies of a continuous frequency band. Video uses higher frequency than audio, thus requires a wider bandwidth. [2] Bar Test Pattern Special test pattern for adjusting color TV receivers or color encoders.

  8. Comparative case - Wikipedia

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    колла kol- la fish- COMP колла kol- la fish-COMP 'like fish' Mari also uses the comparative case in regards to languages, when denoting the language a person is speaking, writing, or hearing. Then, however, the accentuation varies slightly from the standard case. Usually, the suffix is not stressed. When it is used with languages, however, it is stressed. An example of the ...

  9. List of adjectivals and demonyms for cities - Wikipedia

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    Where an adjective is a link, the link is to the language or dialect of the same name. Many place-name adjectives and many demonyms also refer to various other things, sometimes with and sometimes without one or more additional words. Additionally, sometimes the use of one or more additional words is optional.