Timeline for "Early" vs "earlier" this morning / this month
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| Nov 5, 2015 at 18:13 | history | edited | Nathan Tuggy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 5, 2015 at 2:50 | history | edited | Jasper |
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| Nov 5, 2015 at 0:43 | history | migrated | from english.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Nov 3, 2015 at 17:47 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Nov 3, 2015 at 17:05 | comment | added | Nathaniel is protesting | @user145679 The "earlier" example, strictly speaking, only works if the context tells the audience the target of the comparison (friend, yesterday, etc.). | |
| Nov 3, 2015 at 16:57 | comment | added | user145679 | @Nathaniel Okay. So your two example sentences have different meaning and 'earlier morning' makes sense even if it's without any mention of comparison thing or it can be hidden. Do I understand this right? | |
| Nov 3, 2015 at 16:48 | comment | added | user145679 | @chaslyfromUK "Old" and "older" confusion seems to be simillar to my question. I should clear my question with some example sentences. | |
| Nov 3, 2015 at 16:38 | comment | added | user145679 | @Rathony I know the difference between them and understand what you said. But I thought it's strange to use "earlier" with "month" even there is nothing to compared with it. And I had another question about "morning" like 'Earlier morning is correct?'. | |
| Nov 3, 2015 at 14:33 | answer | added | michael_timofeev | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 3, 2015 at 14:00 | answer | added | chasly - supports Monica | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 3, 2015 at 12:50 | comment | added | Nathaniel is protesting | Contrast I will wake up early this morning and I will wake up earlier this morning. The first is a simple statement that I will wake up early. The second is a comparison: perhaps I will wake up earlier than my friend, or I will wake up earlier than I did yesterday. | |
| Nov 3, 2015 at 12:44 | comment | added | chasly - supports Monica | At first this question seems to be nonsense. Of course there is a distinction between an adjective/adverb and its comparative. However, speaking as a Brit, I notice a phenomenon in US English that seems to confuse the two. I speak of 'old' and 'older'. For PC reasons an 'old' person may be described as an 'older' person in the US. The distinction has become blurred. This is not the case in the UK. Could this be part of the same phenomenon? | |
| Nov 3, 2015 at 12:42 | comment | added | user24743 | "Earlier" is the comparative of the adverb "early" and one can't replace the other without changing the meaning. It is better to read your texts more carefully. | |
| Nov 3, 2015 at 12:41 | answer | added | Hot Licks | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 3, 2015 at 12:29 | history | asked | White N | CC BY-SA 3.0 |