英語の文法 "not as … as" ~ Toronto is not as big as Tokyo.

Toronto is not as big as Tokyo.

トロントは、東京ほど大きくありません。

Here is the basic grammar of the sentence ~

A NOUN (名詞) is not as adjective/adverb (形容詞/副詞) as NOUN (名詞)

We use not as … as to make comparisons between things which aren’t equal:

"I was not as strong as my father."
私は私の父ほど強くなかった。

"I am not as smart as her."

私は彼女ほど頭がよくない。

"Michael J. Fox is not as tall as Daniel Craig."

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We use as + adjective/adverb + as to make comparisons when the things we are comparing are equal in some way:

"This is more than twice as big as that."
これはあれの2倍以上大きい。

"The weather this summer is as bad as last year. It hasn’t stopped raining for weeks."

"Please open the box as carefully as you can. It’s very fragile."
fragile = 壊れやすい