What's the difference between "beautiful", "pretty ... - PhraseMix
WEBa beautiful woman. a pretty girl. a gorgeous girl. a handsome man. You can see a few differences immediately. First, the word "handsome" usually describes men instead of women. Next, "beautiful" fits best with "woman" instead of "girl". So you can see that the word "beautiful" is a little more sophisticated. What do we talk about?
How a beautiful girl she is! - WordReference Forums
WEBApr 19, 2015. #2. Krybro said: I know that I can say: 1) How a beautiful girl (she is)! => it is archaic, though. Can I, however, say: 2) What a beautiful girl she is! (instead of: What a beautiful girl!) 3) Such a beautiful girl she is! (for emphasis, instead of: She is such a …
Which is correct: 'as beautiful as her' or 'as beautiful as she'?
WEBSep 8, 2014 · the moon is as beautiful as she. She is a predicate nominative which is indeed in the subjective case. If you expand the sentence, it becomes clear: the moon is as beautiful as she [is]. Alternately if you said. she is as beautiful as the moon. It is clear. Note that "than" another comparative preposition essentially starts a new clause too:
So beautiful a girl was she | WordReference Forums
WEBJan 28, 2014. #1. Hello, I have just found a strange sentence and I'd like to ask you about it. So beautiful a girl was she that the prince felt in love with her at first sight. (source of this sentence is unknown to me, it's just another xerox copy from my teacher) I would say: Such a beautiful girl was she. That would make sence to me.
adjectives - "Beautiful" or "beautifully" - English Language
WEB7. Beautifully is an adverb which describes a verb. Beautiful is an adjective which describes a noun. In your example, you're describing the "you", a noun, so beautiful is the one to use. You're not describing the verb "looking" or the act …
she was the most beautiful child I have/ had ever seen
WEBNov 23, 2012. #2. It's all a matter of perspective. Flora was the most beautiful child that I had ever seen keeps everything in the past, in a normal sequence of tenses, where the past tense of the main verb ("was") sets the past tense of the secondary verb ("had ever seen"). But the past tense of the main verb doesn't always force the past ...
pretty vs. beautiful | WordReference Forums
WEBAug 3, 2007 · "Pretty girl" could apply to a little girl or a young woman; "beautiful girl" is more likely to be said of a young woman, rather than a child. "Beautiful" is certainly more powerful than "pretty", having connotations of something really special/stunning in the looks of a person, rather than general physical attractiveness.
She is the most beautiful girl I have ever seen.
WEBEnglish - England. Jun 6, 2022. #9. These are two ways of saying exactly the same thing: (2) I have never seen a girl so beautiful as her. (7) I have never seen such a beautiful girl as her. Although they provide the same information as (1), obviously they don’t express it in the same way, since that sentence has the girl as the subject.
A word for the sentiment: "You're the most beautiful man/woman …
WEBMay 26, 2016 · You're the most beautiful man/woman I've ever seen. The thing is, this is never true. It's just like calling someone a "best friend". In most cases, people have multiple friends, all of equal importance, all "best friends". For people, there are so many beautiful people in the world that singling one out as "the most beautiful" is a hyperbole.
Why do we use the singular in a comparative sentence?
WEBNov 13, 2014 · She is more beautiful than any other girl. is equivalent to: She is more beautiful than any other individual girl. You could express a similar sentiment with a construction that takes the plural "girls" like so: She is more beautiful than other girls. But this works because, in this case, the comparison is one-to-many.