Use the word more often in a sentence

Что?» Чем чаще это случается…» что?

What is the negative of often?

1. Note: negative sentences involving adverbs of frequency are generally confined to always, often, usually, normally, frequently (and never). Note: Usually, normally, sometimes, and occasionally can also come in the front or end of a sentence, or before don’t.

What is another word for often and frequently?

In this page you can discover 41 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for often, like: frequently, usually, regularly, oftentimes, constantly, common, big, commonly, seldom, frequent and customarily.

How do you use very often?

How To Use Very Often In A Sentence?

What are 3 things we should say more often?

21 Things We Should Say More Often

Is correct more often?

«Often» sometimes has comparative and superlative «oftener» and «Oftenest», but forms with «more/most» are more common. So, both are correct, though «more often» is much more common than «oftener».

What words should we say more often?

Here are 20 things we should say more often if we want to make the world more positive:

What does the word oftener mean?

adverb. oftener; oftenest. Learner’s definition of OFTEN. [or more often; most often] : many times : on many occasions : frequently.

What is the similar meaning of most often?

once and again. most of the time. in the general run of things. repeatedly. recurrently.

What is the meaning of more often?

1. «More often» refers to an action that is done generally often already and now that frequency is being increased. The passage is indicating an exaggerated behavior that he is carrying out which emphasizes his state of mind: anxiety or stress.

What’s the word for doing something over and over again?

To reiterate is to do or say something over and over again, to repeat insistently: to reiterate a refusal, a demand.

What is opposite word of frequently?

(rarely) Opposite of at frequent intervals. rarely. seldom. barely. infrequently.

Is it how frequent or how frequently?

You need the adverb frequently here, it needs agreement with the verb (do frequently): How frequently do you do this? For comparison: the adjective frequent would agree with a noun: How frequent are your trips there?

Is Nearly a negative?

Almost, hardly and nearly are three words that some English grammar learners have trouble to use correctly. Basically, we use almost in positive and negative forms and nearly can only be used in negative forms.

What is the negative of already?

Already is commonly used in negative sentences, typically with the conditional «if». «If he hadn’t already completed the work, I would have helped him.» «If you’re not already a member of our club, please join today.» «If I’m not already crazy, I certainly will be by the time this project is completed.»

What is negative emphasis?

When we want to emphasise something negative, we often use at all. We normally use at all immediately after the word or phrase we are emphasising: There’s nothing at all left in the fridge.

What is comparative of good?

Both good and well change to better and best in their comparative and superlative forms. Use the comparative form — better — when comparing two items. Examples — better as adjective. Example — better as adverb. Use the superlative form — best — when comparing three or more items.

What is the comparative of high?

The comparative form of high; more high.

He travels more often than I do.

Он путешествует чаще, чем я.

It happens more often than it used to.

Это происходит чаще, чем раньше.

More often than not the train is late.

Чаще всего этот поезд опаздывает.

My dentist told me I should floss more often.

Стоматолог сказал, что мне нужно чаще пользоваться зубной нитью.

His watch is in pawn more often than in his pocket.

Его часы чаще находятся в залоге, чем у него в кармане.

They seem to be getting into arguments more and more often.

Похоже, что они всё чаще и чаще ввязываются в ссоры.

None of these newspapers was published more often than twice a week.

Ни одна из этих газет не выходила чаще двух раз в неделю.

A gentle jester, the cartoonist more often tries to evoke a broad smile than a hearty guffaw.

Обладая тонким чувством юмора, этот карикатурист чаще пытается вызвать широкую улыбку, нежели громкий хохот.

How come we don’t see you more often? *

Почему вы так редко у нас бываете?

Примеры, отмеченные *, могут содержать сленг и разговорные фразы.

I beat him more often at pool than he beats me.  

Advertisements are paced so that they are shown more often during peak sales seasons.  

Side effects from prescribed drugs are being reported with increasing frequency (=more and more often).  

Для того чтобы добавить вариант перевода, кликните по иконке ☰, напротив примера.

Hello to the specialists of English

It’s been a long time that I did English (I’m still occupied with French)
and now I find I’m forgetting things.
So I simply ask here what form is more common/commoner
1 more often or oftener
2 commoner or more common

I think both forms are in use but I would be interested which ones
are preferred.

Of course I could find this out by using grammars or the internet but
that’s always a lot of work.

Oh, I have just googled by asking «more often or oftener» and at the first blow
I found a competent answer.
http://www.proz.com/kudoz/english/other/78863-oftener_or_more_often.html

So the answer given there is: oftener I suppose is the older form and more correct
according to grammar rules. But today more often is preferred in normal speech regardless of
grammar rules.
I think one can formulate this problem in this way.
Any other views?

Hi,
‘Commoner’ does not mean ‘more common’ as you think. It means people who don’t belong to royal families.

As regards your question about «oftener or more often», Google Ngram Viewer shows the prevalence of the former is steeping down. See Link

Thanks Salesh for the trouble of answering.
It took me quite some time to get the answers from the internet,
I’m out of practice in English.

But now I asked TFD (not all big dictionaries give the comparison forms)
and TFD clearly says: common commoner commonest
and there is a noun ‘a commoner’ as you rightly say.

But I found there is still some uncertainty. Wordreference
has a post on this problem
http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=233168

and there they are of the view that more common and most common
are used, even more frequently as it seems as the regular forms
common commoner commonest.
So I would say here we have an area of uncertainty, both forms
are used.

Thinking about this problem I come to understand it a little better.
As to two-syllable adjectives normal speakers of English don’t have
a list of endings in the head where the comparative forms use -er and -est.
So it is normal that sometimes uncertainty occurs and that the comparison
with more and most is preferred as it is more frequent.
And in the course of time the «wromg» forms get the better of the grammatical
forms.

—
I’ve just looked up your link, salesh 2010. That’s an excellent diagram.
I didn’t know Google Ngram Viewer. I must study it more closely.
Many thanks for that link!

Rogermue,

Welcome back!

Hope you come around more often.

I have written the link out for you to copy.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=more%20common%2Ccommoner&year_start=1800&year_end=2013&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cmore%20common%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Ccommoner%3B%2Cc0

As a pattern, you can simplify this as (http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content={query}&year_start=1800&year_end=2013&corpus=15&smoothing=3). If you substitute 2 or more phrases (words) separated by commas for the part in green, you can access this search directly. Both Google Chrome and Firefox have the ability to store and manage such search patterns. Safari can do so with the Glims extension.

You are quite right to put «wrong» in scare-quotes like that.

The trend has been to prefer the comparative endings «-er» and «-est» with single-syllable adjectives and words ending in «-y».

It might have to do with the rhythm of the language, or as you say, simplifying things—why memorize a number of endings when a single auxiliary word can transform an entire class of words?

Well, definitely, I use ‘more often’ more often than I use ‘oftener’ (in fact, I don’t think I ever say ‘oftener’).

However, in trying to make up sentences for ‘common’, I ‘drift around’ from one to the other.

It may be something to do with rhythm as leon says, but I can’t recognise a pattern in my preferences. Perhaps I’m just being random.

Your copy of the Oxford must not be up-to-date, I’m afraid.

It’s on this page.

common ADJECTIVE
ˈkɒmən ; ˈkɑːmən

commoner, commonest
HELP more common and most common are more frequent

Well, for me it’s interesting to see that even two mother-tongue experts as Romany and Dragon are
of different view as to the use of ‘commoner’ and ‘more common’.
So this is really an area of uncertainty and there are a lot of such areas — in any language.

Seen etymologically, ‘more’ (my view, I didn’t look up dictionaries) is connected with Latin ‘maior’ meaning ‘bigger’.
So when someone uses ‘more expensive’ the original idea behind this is: something is expensive but in a bigger measure
compared with some other thing. The Latin expression probably was: in modo maiore — in a bigger meassure. This expression (I assume) could be placed before or after an adjective.

In English ‘more’ is related to Latin maior/maiore. maiore can easily be transformed into ‘more’ just be eliminating ‘ai’ from ‘maiore’.
I suppose there was a time in the history of the English language when ‘more’ could be placed before or after the adjective.
When placed behind an adjective ‘more’ soon melted together with the adjective: So common more became something like
common mer and then commoner.

So what I want so show so clumsily is that the idea behind ‘commoner’ or ‘more common’ is in principle the same.

I hope my lengthy explanation doesn’t deter too many readers from this forum.

That’s a reasonable (not necessarily completely true) explanation!

I just thought of the possible reason for the ‘discrepancy’ in ‘common’.

Some of us/we lazier, slightly less formal people pronounce «commoner», the comparative, more like «commner» when it’s not stressed — so it
becomes like adding ‘-er’ to a one-syllable adjective:
Hot — hotter

good — gooder

high — higher
commn — commner

So it’s possibly a spin-off from the drift towards simplification of the colloquial language.
If there’s a little more stress on the word, both syllables are pronounced equally, so it becomes ‘more common’. Maybe.

Well, well, well — a fine dance you’ve led me upon, Drago. But its been very educational!

From time to time I’ve seen people onhgere saying they found something in the Oxford and have been completely stymied. The commoner/oftener were two cases in point.

With all due respect to Drago, I’ve always considered both to be …well…wrong. I certainly would correct them in a student paper and, backing me up, the OED also draws up its skirts in horror as well. While Ruth attests to the fact that neither are in use in AE.

So when Drago said he’d found both I thought I was going nuts and went again and again to the OED both on-line and in hard-copy. Still no sign of the dratted words.

So eventually — being ever the dim bulb — I actually clicked on the link he had supplied (yeah! I know. D’uh!) and there they were….but then I realised that this wasn’t that august personage formulated by the British Philological Society…but the OALD, formulated by an English teacher and the British Council and with as fascinating, if shorter, a history as the OED.

So at last: all is revealed. I finally get it. All those usages that have totally stumped me when people have cited the Oxford as their source were, I guess, from the OALD, and not the OED.

OK, not going to bring it down to pistols at dawn with anyone as to which is the ‘best’. Simply making it clear that the ‘Oxford’ I continually refer to as the arbiter of whether or not to take marks away from students (or have marks taken away from myself!) is the OED, not the rather more forgiving OALD.

Mystery solvered. At last!!!

Now, let’s not get into politics in the language forums, leave it fir the political one!

Though Romany has been called a Liberal so much on the other side, she may be happy to be called a Conservative for a change!

Methinks that Madam Romany was using my inadvertent typographical error (‘fir’ instead of ‘for’)
as an excuse to ‘extract the urine’.
However her post was very funny!