Comparative has 4 syllables and the stress is on the second syllable.
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| 1. | Once divorced from key questions of national culture and identity, comparative literature loses its way. | |
| 2. | After many hardships, he now lives in comparative ease. | |
| 3. | Comparative studies are now making rapid progress. | |
| 4. | Unlike "then", "than" is not related to time. "Than" is used in comparative statements. | |
| 5. | My major is comparative religion. | |
| 6. | I study comparative religion in the arts faculty at Turku University. | |
| 7. | In the 100s BC, Hipparchus, the most important Greek astronomer of his time, calculated the comparative brightness of as many as 1,000 different stars. He also calculated the Moon's distance from the Earth. | |
| 8. | The world has not escaped from the darkness. The long shadows of conflict and crisis envelop us still. But we meet today in an atmosphere of rising hope, and at a moment of comparative calm. | |
| 9. | Yanni wrote a few books on comparative religion. |