AIBU to ask this?

[milkmanjenkins]

Is 'whiter than milk' a simile?
I know it's not a metaphor and a simile is usually 'as' or 'like, but it's still comparison?
help plz

Comparative adjective?

@bonfireheart

Comparative adjective?

just googled it and it says that applies to nouns

Does it not depend if it is actually whiter than milk or not? If it's not, it's a metaphor?

i dont want to fail english :(

@HereIfYouNeedMe

Does it not depend if it is actually whiter than milk or not? If it's not, it's a metaphor?

actually it might be

Milk is the noun and whatever you're comparing the milk to is a noun too?

Are you describing something white e.g my legs are whiter than milk, or something more abstract, e.g he was such an innocent, whiter than milk?

@DysmalRadius

Are you describing something white e.g my legs are whiter than milk, or something more abstract, e.g he was such an innocent, whiter than milk?

It's like 'but for acres round us the sea was whiter than milk'

In that case it's a comparative simile - the sea isn't milk, you are likening it to milk, using a comparative adjective.

E.g the sea was as white as milk - simile
The sea was whiter than milk - comparative simile

oohh wait i get it now

thank you i get it now

Happy to help - it's weird how we know how to use all these constructions, but when you have to give them names it all seems super complicated!

If you fancy an interesting read, the order of adjectives is another one that we all use all the time without thinking about it, but when you read the 'rules' they seem super confusing.

E.g if you said 'look at that brown, big, lovely dog', it sounds really weird because we all know that opinion comes before size and size comes before colour when describing things even though most of us don't actually realise we know it!

dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/adjectives-order