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1. relative


One of the greatest hurdles facing middle school students learning English is relative pronouns.
He's staing with relatives.
Week 13: Learn about absolute, and relative, motion.
The relative pronoun 'that' has two states, a nominative case and objective case, but there is no possessive case.
Soldiers were regularly relieved and found relative safety in the dug-outs.
The problem quoted isn't one, but there are problems in the reading section that ask you to distinguish relative pronouns from relative adverbs.
Relative to overall sales, that of software is insignificant.
However, the preposition+relative pronoun (which) part becomes a relative adverb (where).
I have a new relative: my sister got married, so now I have a brother-in-law.
The words 'beautiful' and 'ugly' are relative terms.
Ah, y-yes ... Sorry, Coz. "Hey! You might be my relative but here I'm your senior and a doctor. Keep things straight while you're in the hospital!"
He accepted the truth with relative ease. (On zaakceptował prawdę ze względnym spokojem.) Danny is a distant relative of my father. (Danny jest dalekim krewnym mojego ojca.)
Doesn't he have a relative in town or something?
Relative pronouns perform as 'conjunction + pronoun'.

2. comparison


In comparison with Tokyo, London is small.
His work is beyond comparison.
comparison test
I'm just beginner in comparison with her.
To have a better comparison we need to have more information.
In comparison to which she's been in a really good mood recently.
Godwin's law teaches us that any infinite discussion about an arbitrary subject converges to a Nazi comparison.
They made a comparison of different countries' exercising habits.
that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
after comparison of all the solutions proposed by the contractors
She's so tall that he looks tiny by/in comparison.
Mazda MX-5 RF vs Mazda MX-5 comparison
The comparison of both machines is difficult.
Wr drew some comparisons between the problems which frequently occur in our team.
It's a comparison of setting the white balance to "auto" versus presetting it with white copy paper.