How people do things: comparative adverbs

Before a consonant or at the end of a word the SSCs [um/un] are identical nasal sounds. When ‘um’ and ‘un’ come before a vowel the ‘m’ and ‘n’ are pronounced as two different oral sounds. Adverbs describe verbs, whereas adjectives describe nouns. 'Plus' or 'moins' go before adverbs to compare how things happen, e.g. Inès arrive plus vite: Inès arrives more quickly. 'Better' is both adjective and adverb in English. In French, the adjective is 'meilleur(e)' and the adverb is 'mieux'.