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English and Comparative Literary Studies

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English and Comparative Literary Studies at University of Warwick

Language: English Studies in English
Subject area: languages
University website: www.warwick.ac.uk
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

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Comparative
In linguistics, the comparative is a syntactic construction that serves to express a comparison between two (or more) entities or groups of entities in quality, or degree. See comparison (grammar) for an overview of comparison, as well as positive and superlative degrees of comparison.
Giant penguins bigger than most humans roamed the Earth millions of years ago. Analysis of 37-million-year-old penguin fossils by a team of researchers from the La Plata Museum in Argentina shows that the so-called ‘colossus penguin’ stood at staggering 2 metres from toe to beak tip.
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