How can a comparative sentence be expressed in Latin?

One of the more common ways of expressing comparison in Latin is to use quam + a noun in the same case as the noun which it is being compared to. For example, in the sentence ‘lupus est fortior quam canis’, The comparative adjective ‘fortior’ (‘stronger’) and the conjunction ‘quam(‘than’) show that the sentence is comparative. the nominative subject ‘lupus’ (‘wolf’) is in the same case as ‘canis’ (‘dog’), showing that these are the two nouns being compared. To put the whole sentence together, take all of these components and the verb ‘est’ (‘is’) to make ‘The wolf is stronger than the dog’.The ablative of comparison is a construction in Latin where the ablative case is used on the noun which is being compared to another noun in the sentence. In the sentence ‘lupus est fortior cane.’ The comparative adjective ‘fortior’ shows us that we have a comparison. However, ‘cane’ is now in the ablative case, which shows us that this is the noun which the nominative subject ‘Lupus’ is compared with. The translation is the same ‘The wolf is stronger than the dog’.  

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