As mike said, it is a comparative. Adjectives are the base form for making comparatives.

I think these are called comparatives. See; http://www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworkshop/grammar/comparatives_and_superlatives.htm

In a sentence where the descriptive word follows a form of be (is, was, are, etc.), is the description an adjective or an adverb? I.E. Arnold is stronger than Sylvester. (stronger) or simply: Arnold is strong. (strong) The Corvette was faster

maj... new yorkers go "uptown" (and "downtown"). uptown is towards the north, dowtown is south... "town" is manhattan, NOT the rest of the city. (and i am still not convinced that "downtown" is an adverb... but what the hell!)

Moijelesuis, I was talking about home, not downtown. As for downtown it is NOT a preposition; in the above example it is indeed used as an adverb. However I agree with you that 'to the city center' does sound a bit awkward. Perhaps town centre

careful orpheus, downtown is a preposition, not an adverb! as fpr whl626's suggestion... whereas non-english speakers find downtown without "to" awkward, native english listeners might find "to the city center" as, well, for lack of a better word,

I encountered the term "anakuklosis" many years ago, in context meaning "coming back around again and again, always at a ... and collapse. Ans others use it to mean simply regression. Is there a "correct" meaning or usage

I don't know if this is of any help, but try to think of home as a direction instead of destination. When you say 'I'll go home', you are actually saying 'I'm heading home' rather than 'I'm going to a destination called home'. I think that is why

articles are a subset of adjectives... given the 8 parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, interjections, pronouns) articles fall under adjectives. need more "proof"? check the following site:

downtown can be used as a noun... ex: Montréal's downtown is not as lively as it used to be. as for your example, i would be more likely to say "show me the way downtown", again, as a preposition (not an adverb as you have suggested). as for