Comparing using adverbs (she wears it more elegantly) is different from comparing actions or things.
Look at these examples:
Note that to compare adverbs (nicely, quickly, slowly ...), you use comparative words as follows:
| English | French |
| more [adverb] than [adverb]-er than |
plus [adverbe] que |
| less [adverb] than | moins [adverbe] que |
| as [adverb] as | aussi [adverbe] que |
ATTENTION:
With adverbs, you NEVER agree.
You won't say ''Elle marche plus lentemente que moi.''
You won't say ''Elle marche plus lentemente que moi.''
Whereas in English, you will need to use a subject pronoun after than (... than I (do), you (do), he/she (does)...), in French you will once again use the stress pronoun after que (... que moi, toi, lui/elle, nous, vous, eux/elles). You will also never repeat the verb with (do/am/have) afterwards.
Je cours plus vite que tu fais toi.
I run faster than you do.
I run faster than you do.
See also other Comparative structures:
Plus... plus..., moins... moins... = the more...the more..., the less...the less... (comparisons with phrases)
Better and better, worse and worse = de mieux en mieux, de pire en pire (comparisons)
De plus en plus and de moins en moins = more and more and less and less (comparisons with adjectives, adverbs, verbs)
De plus en plus de and de moins en moins de = more and more and less and less (comparisons of nouns)
Making comparisons with adjectives: plus... que, aussi... que, moins... que
Making comparisons with nouns: plus de... que, moins de... que, autant de... que
Making comparisons with verbs: plus que, autant que, moins que
And for Superlative forms, see:
Le, la, les plus and le, la, les moins = the most and the least (superlatives of adjectives)
Meilleur, mieux, pire / plus mauvais, plus mal = better, best, worse and worst (irregular comparatives and superlatives)
Le plus and le moins = the most and the least (superlative of adverbs)
Forming the superlative of adjectives in complex cases
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