ANY + comparative

‘Any’ can be used as an adverb to mean ‘at all’ or ‘in some degree’.

Here are expert examples:

We‘re not gonna discuss it here any further.

Keep The Change

You‘re not at university any longer.

listen

How would that end any differently than last time?

Captain America


In the English Vocabulary Profile, ‘any’ is listed as

ADVERB B1 used in questions and negatives to emphasize a comparative adjective or adverb

‘any more’ is listed at A2 to talk about an activity that has stopped.


Therefore, you can ask “Do you feel better?” or if you want to emphasize ‘better’  meaning ‘even a little bit’  then you can use ‘any + comparative ‘better’:  “Do you feel any better?”


Here’s a search in the NOW corpus for:

any _JJ .

*Not all of these are adjectives and not all of these are ‘any’ modifying the following word.

1 ANY OTHER. 12025
2 ANY BETTER. 9408
3 ANY FURTHER. 5935
4 ANY GOOD. 5244
5 ANY DIFFERENT. 4764
6 ANY EASIER. 3610
7 ANY WORSE. 1847
8 ANY YOUNGER. 920
9 ANY CLOSER. 752
10 ANY FASTER. 553
11 ANY HIGHER. 513
12 ANY SAFER. 410
13 ANY BIGGER. 379
14 ANY LOWER. 331
15 ANY HAPPIER. 303
16 ANY CLEARER. 293
17 ANY WRONG. 245
18 ANY CHEAPER. 190
19 ANY LEFT. 180
20 ANY HARDER. 178
21 ANY QUICKER. 178
22 ANY FARTHER. 176
23 ANY SMALLER. 150
24 ANY EARLIER. 142

27 ANY DEEPER. 122

30 ANY STRONGER. 102
31 ANY EXTRA. 97
32 ANY SIMPLER. 90

35 ANY LARGER. 73
36 ANY SHORTER. 73
37 ANY WISER. 73

39 ANY AVAILABLE. 64

41 ANY OLDER. 61

43 ANY UPSET. 52
44 ANY BRIGHTER. 51

46 ANY PROUDER. 51
47 ANY SWEETER. 50
48 ANY TOUGHER. 49
49 ANY HEALTHIER. 47

A2 adjectives:

available, brighter, clearer, deeper, earlier, extra, farther, further, healthier, higher, larger, lower, simpler, stronger, upset, worse


A search for:

any_RR _RR .

1 ANY LONGER. 16266
2 ANY FURTHER. 2996
3 ANY MORE. 1318
4 ANY SOONER. 267

7 ANY BETTER. 65
8 ANY DIFFERENTLY. 27
9 ANY EASIER. 23
10 ANY SAFER. 17