How people do things: comparative adjectives and adverbs

Before a consonant or at the end of a word the SSCs [um/un] sound the same; they are both nasal sounds. When ‘um’ or ‘un’ come before a vowel the ‘m’ and ‘n’ are pronounced and the two oral sounds are like [u] + 'm' or 'n'. The three ways to compare two nouns using a comparative adjective are 'plus...que', 'moins...que' and 'aussi ... que'. The adjective goes in the middle of the comparative phrase, e.g. 'le village est plus grand que la ville'. In this way, we can compare how people do things using adverbs in the middle, e.g. 'Léa travaille plus vite qu'Amir'.