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  • Jun 17, 2008, 06:42 AM
    blueuniform
    synonym about "what's worse"
    hello, everybody, I'm not native speaker, but I have to write an assignment in English.

    and I found my vocabs is not enough because I have used this phrase "what's worse" and "even worse" for so many times already.

    could you give out some other similar expression, I really don't want to make teacher feel sick of my article, thanks a lot~

    :o
  • Jun 17, 2008, 06:53 AM
    N0help4u
    You could say
    In comparison, the worse case scenario would be...

    You think that is bad, this is really horrible...

    Comparing
    The Ford Escort is inferior to the Thunderbird.

    Or you could use the positive
    The better choice is the combo meal.
    I prefer the black leather shoes over the brown man made ones.
  • Jun 17, 2008, 07:17 AM
    kp2171
    You don't have to tell the reader that what you are about to mention is worse... let them make that judgement, or use words that describe the situation.

    For ex, instead of writing "flooding in the midwest has driven many from their homes and into crowded shelters. even worse, the liklihood their water-soaked houses are salvagable diminishes with every passing day."

    You could start the second sentence with "tragically, the liklihood" or "sadly..." or "unfortunately..."

    So use a word that describes the situation... the reader will understand by the content of the sentence that what you are describing escalates the situation.

    Words like "additionally", or "likewise", or "furthermore" all show the next sentence is extending the description of whatever you are talking about.
  • Jun 21, 2008, 04:15 AM
    Clough
    Excellent answers above!

    It would also help to know about that which you are writing in order to give you some other ideas as far as the choices of the words that you might use.

    Thanks!
  • Jun 21, 2008, 04:39 AM
    George_1950
    "what's worse" and "even worse" = furthermore
    My recollection is that you are describing a conjunction, but maybe not; here is a cite:
    Grammatical conjunction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    and: furthermore - definition of furthermore by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
  • Jun 21, 2008, 07:26 AM
    blueuniform
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by George_1950
    "what's worse" and "even worse" = further more
    My recollection is that you are describing a conjunction, but maybe not; here is a cite:
    Grammatical conjunction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    and: furthermore - definition of furthermore by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.

    Thanks george, you teach me how to fish other than to give me a fish~

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