longer

«longer» in Mova's school dictionary: having more length than something else — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective, adverb (comparative of long)

meaning for a pupil

1) Longer means having more length than something else. tree →

2) Longer means lasting more time: «Stay a bit longer». tree →

3) No longer means not any more: «He no longer lives here». tree →

sense in the lessons

more length than the thing before; «D longer» with no «than» compares with the thing just before: + D; «How much longer» asks for a difference; phrases: «longer than», «no longer», «any longer», «a little longer»

examples

• The blue ribbon is 3 metres longer. tree →
• The rope is 5 metres longer than the string. tree →
• Which ribbon is longer? tree →
• Days are longer in summer than in winter. tree →
• Can we stay a little longer at the park? tree →
• My hair is longer than my sister's. tree →
• The shop no longer sells comics. tree →
• A giraffe's neck is longer than a horse's. tree →
• I can bear it no longer!” tree →

note

«D longer» with no «than» compares with the thing just before: + D. «How much longer» asks for a difference: subtract. Trap: «no longer» has nothing to do with length.

In the corpora

• Big building jobs often take longer and cost more than planned.
• Most TV romances end after the show; real relationships take much longer than a few weeks of filming.
• AI helps scammers write perfect emails, so good spelling is no longer proof a message is real.
• You can be kind and honest at once: "I love the colours, the horse's legs could be longer."
• A squid has 8 arms and 2 longer tentacles, and like an octopus it has 3 hearts.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «longer» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.