Wonder if someone would be so kind as to solve a dispute between my girlfriend and I on the use of the word STRICTER. Here is the sentence she used yesterday in our conversation:
"...they have different state regulations than AR and they are a lot stricter."
I realize stricter is a real word so I am not debating that. What I am debating is the use in the sentence. I told her that the sentence should be structured differently using more/less strict or something similar. I based my argument on the fact that I can not recall many occurences of the word stricter in daily reading. Is it grammatically correct to use the word stricter in her context or should the sentence be restructured?