Grammar: comparison, obligation, and advice

What this page trains

Use this page when your answer names the options but does not show the basis of comparison, or when advice language stays too vague to guide the listener or reader.

The page focuses on useful grammar choices that appear in reviews, recommendations, service talk, and exam-style advice tasks.

• State what is being compared and why.
• Connect obligation and advice to the actual situation.
• Use grammar to lead toward a practical outcome.

Core patterns and contrasts

Comparison gets clearer when one basis stays stable: price, speed, comfort, effort, usefulness, or risk. Advice gets clearer when the recommendation is tied to that basis and not added as a loose afterthought.

Useful frames include plus ... que, moins ... que, il faut, il vaut mieux, on devrait, and il serait utile de. These patterns help the sentence move from weighing to recommending.

• Keep one comparison point visible from start to finish.
• Use obligation and advice only after the issue is clear.
• Prefer one specific recommendation to three vague ones.

Practice routine

Compare two options from a live lesson, then add one recommendation that follows logically from the comparison. This turns grammar into decision language instead of isolated pattern work.

Next, rewrite the same answer for a friend and for a more formal audience. The comparison usually stays stable while the advice line changes its tone.

• Name the options, then the basis, then the advice.
• Rewrite one recommendation more softly.
• Read the final answer aloud to hear the logic.

How to use this page

How to use this page: pair it with A2 recommendations, B1 advice, and B2 source-comparison tasks. It is especially useful when the answer seems correct but still not decisively helpful.

Return whenever your comparison reads like a list and your advice reads like a generic closing sentence.

After reading the page, revise one older sentence, message, or paragraph with it immediately. The page becomes much more valuable when it changes a real output and not only your notebook.

• Best with A2 to B2 recommendation work.
• Useful before oral advice and written comparison tasks.
• Keep one advice frame for speaking and one for writing.