Comparaciones Complejas en Análisis del Lenguaje Empresarial

Clase 12 de 23 • Curso de Inglés Intermedio Alto B2: Pasado Perfecto y Frases Adverbiales

Resumen

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Existen diversas formas de realizar comparaciones entre dos cosas. Veremos una serie de formas que pueden emplear para realizar comparaciones complejas y elaboradas.

Comparaciones complejas en inglés

Si quieres comparar dos objetos, situaciones, lugares, etc. tienes que ser claro y efectivo. Puedes destacar importantes detalles. Este tipo de expresiones puede ayudarte a evitar confusiones o para ilustrar conceptos abstractos concretos.

Comparaciones de dos palabras

Cuando el adjetivo o el adverbio que quieres utilizar para comparar tiene más de dos sílabas, puedes utilizar la fórmula “more/less + adjective/adverb”.

Veamos algunos ejemplos:

Last year’s numbers were more successful than this year’s results.
This strategy is less effective than the one I have proposed.

Veamos un ejemplo del roleplay visto anteriormente: It appears that our Halloween sale was far less effective than anticipated.

Comparación de múltiples números

Si deseas realizar comparaciones con números o cantidades, puedes utilizar palabras como “half”, “twice”, “three times”, “ten times” y la fórmula “number + as much/many + (noun) + as”

Veamos algunos ejemplos:

The team works ten times as much as the leader does.
He has half as many reports as Maria.

Ejemplo del roleplay: Our competitor, Gorilla Products Inc., sold nearly twice as many units as we did.

Doble comparativa

Puedes llegar a necesitar una segunda comparación para explicar la primera o para aclarar la situación. Utiliza la fórmula “The + comparative A + subject + verb + the + comparative B + subject + verb”

Veamos algunos ejemplos:

The longer you procrastinate on this task, the more difficult it will be for you to keep up.
The more time he spends with his children, the happier he feels.

Veamos dos ejemplos más del roleplay:

The more we use invasive marketing techniques, the less likely clients are to purchase our products..
The longer we spend bothering people with these outdate methods, the less resources we’ll have to invest in more efficient techniques.

Conclusión

Has visto en esta clase tres formas distintas de elaborar comparaciones complejas que desde ahora puedes comenzar a practicar y utilizar para mejorar tu vocabulario de inglés.

Contribución creada por: Kevin Fiorentino (Platzi Contributor).

Obdaly Garay

student•

Analysis of the business in CRISIS: The effort and hard work for the project were less valuable than we thought, the project now is shut down. The more work we put the less we received. So, now I need you guys to work ten times as much as the Ompa Loompas. Every project we do has to be more effective than the last one. So please promise that you will give your 100%. We need to sell twice as many sell we had last month. I know you can help me. After we get out of this crisis, you will be very much appreciated with a promotion in your salary.

Gabriel Obregón

student•

Good morning team: The last annual balance has been finished. The results have shown a fall in the profitability of our company. It's evident that our sales strategies this year were less productive than the year before. For the market, our company is less reliable than competition. The most important aspects are:

Our estimations show that the profit in this year was nearly a quarter as many dollars as the year before.
Our statistics found that the proportion of fixed costs in the last quarter was approximately twice as many units as the year before. Sales strategy change is necessary. The identification of inefficiencies must be resolved the following days by meetings between us. But the more time passes, the more problems we have with our company. I think that in this way we will find the solution. Thank you very much.

José Iván Triviño Fúnez

student•

"The less I know, the better"

Have you ever listened to this song?

Cole McCannon

teacher•

Hahaha, by Tame Impala? Yeah, that's a classic. Great job tying grammar concepts to real life!

Cristian Miguel Gómez Salazar

student•

Double Word

This month the sales need a more effective methods.
We are going down... last year we were more successful

Multiple Number

We are losing three times as much as our competitors do.
Our business has expanded five times as much as the market has done it.

Double Comparison

The more discounts we give, the less profit we get.
The less we listen to our clientes, the more loses we have.

Nicolás Olaya Rincón

student•

*Meeting Good morning guys, today we're gonna talk about company's situation, as you know we've lost more than 1 million dollars in less than 2 months, that's a terrible scenary and I thought on a strategy to improve our sales and customers. 1- We have to modify pur website and do it more creative and colorful, because I read last night thaht colorful websited attract more costumers. 2- We need to spend at least $ 500 dollars less than the last month, with this saved money we can invest in socialmedia marketing. 3- We need to stop use cellphones in office, we're spending more than 3 hours just in social media, is scare. 4- We need to beat PLOT.S company, they're higher than us in the top ranking companies in the city.

Cole McCannon

teacher•

Great job Nicolás! These are some great strategies.

Tania Gabriela Gonzalez Vallejos

student•

My business is in more crisis than before

The sales are way down, as have new costumers

The more we use data analysis, less costumers will be lost

Juliette Villarroel

student•

Managing crisis text: Good morning, guys.

I have some news for you, and it’s not good. Our company is going through a crisis. Let me explain why.

The sales from the last 3 months were less than usual. It is more difficult to attract new customers now and, we urgently need to analyse our data. That’s why I brought you up here. We need to work ten times as much as ants and try to sell twice as many units as we did in the last quarter. The longer we spend implementing the old strategy, the faster we will lose our jobs. I know we can do better than this, and I count on you guys.

JUAN SEBASTIAN BECERRA BEDOYA

student•

We experienced a downturn in sales, selling two times less than our competitors. Therefore, we must change our approach quickly to minimise losses. To achieve this, we are going to invest in advertising three times more than our competitors.

Annee Jazmin Zambrano

student•

We are going through a difficult situation in sales and we need to determine what is going on. I have been working on these reports that illustrate some important information to show you where we need to focus.

This time of year, we see that we have had less growth in sales than we did last year in these same months, but we are more active in terms of strategies. We have invested three times as much money as before, but we are obtaining only half as many sales as gains.

It seems that the more we invest in strategies, the fewer results we are getting. We definitely need to change our approach.

Juan Esteban León Venegas

student•

After careful investigation we noticed we are in a big crisis here on our company. The amount of current customers are less interested than the last year. Our sales from this year are more quite than recent previous years.

Our competitors sold almost two times as many products as we have made this month.

Checking the public information the competitor had to fire half as workers as we did this year, which is the only possitive thing.

The more we worked providing a good service the more succes we had, so we now know the smart work lead us correctly. Let's keep working.

Nicolás Díaz

student•

The way we have been taking is very improvised. We have to stop, take a breath a analyze our numbers. What is going on?. If you check the sales for the last month, they are the half as much sales as made at the same moment of the last year. But we have to accept that currently sales are more expensive but in less quantity. Maybe what is happening is that the more we focus in sell big solutions, the less likely small sales we wil sell. We are going to segment the team in order to have 3 people only focused with small and quickly sales, then, I'm sure at the end of this mont we will have sold twice as many quick sales as we did the last month.

Luis David Convento Silva

student•

Double word:

Our sales are less than the pass year

The marketing is less effective than I expected

Multiple number:

Our competitor sold almost twice as many unit as we did

We need to increase our sold three times as many units as we sold already

Double comparative:

The more time we loose using this tehcniques the less likely clients are to purchase out products

Ronald Gutiérrez

student•

Compared to last year, our monthly expenses are far higher and our customer visits are much lower.

We have three times more unsold products in inventory and twice as many customer complaints.

Our competitor’s online engagement is double ours, which shows we need to strengthen our marketing efforts.

Yohan Florez

student•

This is the less productive year for our company.
We are experiencing the lowest level in sales in the last 5 years.
Our competitors are selling two times as much in new lines as Nike.
Customer retention is twice as much good as our market niche competitors this year.
The more sales trainings we do with Dale Carnegie platform, the less effective results we have seen in sales.

Cesar Estevan Castro Ubaque

student•

Critical Business Situation

Hope everyone is well.

The following contains important information, please read carefully.

The agency have closed this semester with more financial difficulties than the last one. Our clients retentions was supposed to be at least 10% more effective than the last period however it did not happen.

We have lost double as much as 2020 when covid hit us. With this result we will have to fire twice people or as many we need as in 2020 while the company gets estable.

Jacobo Ayala Giraldo

student•

It appears that our very special season sales was less important than we expected. We are just selling nearly half as many products as we can. All of our internal teams should, since now, start to analyze data to solve this problem. The more data we analyze, the more good results we'll achive. Good luck.

Natalia Andrea Rodríguez Rodríguez

student•

Solar energy is more eco-friendly than coal energy.
Tom can eat three times as much food as Wendy can.
The more we practice these comparatives, the more we understand it.

Cristian Camilo Duque Zapata

student•

Activities:

1. Solar energy is 25 times less used than coal energy.

The more we use solar energy, the more eco-friendly we become
Tom can eat 3 times the amount of food that Wendy eat
Tom can eat 3 times as much food as wendy can
The more I practice these comparisons, the more I understand them.

Final exercise:

Our business is not having improvement sings. After launching several campaings, we're noticing that the strategies are less efective than expected. The sales have dropped 20% as compared to last year and our closest compertitor is selling twice as many suscriptions than us. We've noticed that the mor ewe send emails, the less conversion we get. We need to definitely find new strategies to boost our performance and get back on track.

Alfonso Neil Jiménez

student•

le pregunté a ChatGPT por una posible respuesta al ejercicio 1 del worksheet que dejaron en Google Drive https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1YnpFQbqyA37bp4pRykxjIvPHWe9Ysy9e/edit?usp=sharing\&ouid=111813983755150422294\&rtpof=true\&sd=true comparto el prompt y la respuesta que me dió https://chatgpt.com/share/67dafbb2-1eec-800d-9019-ea446edfcaf0

Juan Sebastián Sierra Sánchez

student•

Good evening, Alejo. Nice to meet you; my name is Juan Sebastian.

I am a civil engineer interested in working here at Gabriela. Although I don’t have experience in this field and haven’t previously worked in client service or as a waiter, I am highly enthusiastic about the gastronomic world. I’m proactively learning about cooking, and I am confident that I can bring a level of motivation that drives me to give my very best to achieve outstanding results.

Initially, my efficiency might be lower than that of a more experienced candidate, but I am committed to learning quickly and eager to grow and improve my skills—twice as much as others, if needed.

I am not afraid of challenges and am fully motivated to meet and exceed your expectations. The more effort I put into my role, the more I can learn and contribute to Gabriela, complementing my abilities with the valuable experience you bring to the gastronomy business.