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Do you know how to use comparative adjectives like faster, bigger, and more expensive?

Enhance your
knowledge with a lesson given below and the grammar explanation to guide you better.

Look at these examples to see how comparative adjectives are used:

 This car is faster than my old one.

 His new apartment is bigger than the last one.

 The restaurant is more expensive than I expected.

Grammar explanation - Comparative adjectives

We use comparative adjectives to highlight differences between two things or to indicate a change. The
way we form the comparative depends on the number of syllables in the adjective.

1. Adjectives with one syllable

To form comparatives with one-syllable adjectives, we usually add -er:

 tall → taller

 cold → colder

 short → shorter

If an adjective ends in -e, we simply add -r:

 large → larger

 close → closer

If an adjective ends in a vowel followed by a consonant, we usually double the consonant:

 fat → fatter

 wet → wetter

2. Adjectives with two or more syllables

If a two-syllable adjective ends in a consonant and -y, we change -y to -i and add -er:

 busy → busier

 funny → funnier

 hungry → hungrier

For most other two-syllable adjectives, and for all adjectives with three or more syllables, we
use more to form the comparative:

 careful → more careful

 peaceful → more peaceful

 comfortable → more comfortable


Exception: Some two-syllable adjectives can either add -er or use more, such as common, clever, quiet,
narrow, gentle, and pleasant.

 This road is narrower than the one we took before.

 His explanation was more gentle than I expected.

3. Irregular adjectives

Some adjectives have irregular comparative forms:

 little → less

 much → more

 far → further/farther

Than To indicate what we are comparing, we use than:

 The cake is sweeter than the one you made last time.

 This movie is more exciting than the previous one.

 She finished her homework faster than her brother.

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