easy; easier: much easier; much more easier

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Would it sound OK to the native speaker if I threw "much more easier" in an informal conversation for "much easier"?
 

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How about ''much more risky" for "much riskier"?
 

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That's fine.
 

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You mean post #3?
 

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Would it sound OK to the native speaker if I threw "much more easier" in an informal conversation for "much easier"?

Neither "much more easier" or "much easier" are correct.
 

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What's wrong with much easier?

Mrs. Adams gave us a really hard test last month. The one we had yesterday was much easier.
 

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I've got another one. Is it much fairer or much more fair? My dictionaries say I can't use more fair though I've come across the use of it by native speakers.

And I would also appreciate your advice. Is it "neither ....nor......" or "neither ....or......" when it's used as a conjunction? In post#7 it's "neither....or.."
 
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It was good enough for Wordsworth, so it's good enough for me, even though he wrote that over 200 years ago.

I would say that 'more fair' is best kept for the meaning of 'more beautiful'.

And I can't say fairer than that.

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This one I've found at prsent.
[h=3]"Look at the faces here around you, and you see an America that is more fair and more free and more just than the one Dr. King addressed that day."[/h]What about "neither or" or "neither nor"?
 

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What's wrong with much easier?

Mrs. Adams gave us a really hard test last month. The one we had yesterday was much easier.

Nothing. I was thinking it was redundant, but I was wrong.
 

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But still to my question in post#11. I've always been taught that it's "neither.... nor.....". Can I use "neither ....or...." as in post#7?
 

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I've always been taught that it's "neither.... nor.....". Can I use "neither ....or...." as in post#7?
You shouldn't. SD made a rare slip.

Neither "much more easier" nor "much easier" is correct.

And a reminder - "much easier" is correct.
 
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