To think that those who dropped the bomb on Hiroshima were no better than the nazis who masscred the jews

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The dropping of the the two bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were genocide. The bombs were diliberately intended to kill unarmed civilians. Neither target was military. There was no need for nuclear weapons as Japan was already on its knees.

Yes dear, some of my year 9 students can articulate the point clearer than you.

And I trust that if they wrote that "clearer" would be corrected to "more clearly"! And, why, oh why, does everybody call 13 and 14 year old children "students" - what is wrong with pupils?

To create a comparative from single syllable adjectives you add er to the word, not the word more.

Her point is that a comparative adjective was used when it should have been a comparative adverb.

I've also been to Hiroshima - three times in fact. The bomb museum there is very interesting and surprisingly objective - it doesn't have playing the victim. The same is true of the one in Nagasaki.

This is in stark contrast to the museum in Yasukuni shrine, which states that Japan fought a defensive war.

Notnowdarling01 Of course as BadLad points out many adjectives have a comparative form ending in "er" and is right that I highlighted this sentence because "clearer" is being used as the comparative form of an adverb - not an adjective - and is clearly, therefore, wrong. I only raised it because it appeared to come from a teacher - who was, moreover, criticising other people's ability to use language properly! Motes and beams spring to mind. I would have hoped that the difference between an adjectival and adverbial use would be so ingrained in anybody who teaches that they could not make such an error even in heat and haste.