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Comparative and Superlative Adjectives

Here are the answers to the exercises: 1. big, bigger, biggest 2. bright, brighter, brightest 3. clean, cleaner, cleanest 4. delicious, more delicious, most delicious 5. easy, easier, easiest 6. fine, finer, finest 7. fresh, fresher, freshest 8. good, better, best 9. new, newer, newest 10. safe, safer, safest

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Comparative and Superlative Adjectives

Here are the answers to the exercises: 1. big, bigger, biggest 2. bright, brighter, brightest 3. clean, cleaner, cleanest 4. delicious, more delicious, most delicious 5. easy, easier, easiest 6. fine, finer, finest 7. fresh, fresher, freshest 8. good, better, best 9. new, newer, newest 10. safe, safer, safest

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COMPARATIVE AND

SUPERLATIVE ADJECTIVES
YANA SANCHKIVSKA FISB 1-17
COMPARATIVE ADJECTIVES
 We use comparative adjectives to show change or make comparisons:

 This car is certainly better, but it's much more expensive.


 I'm feeling happier now.
 We need a bigger garden.

 We use than when we want to compare one thing with another:

 She is two years older than me.


 New York is much bigger than Boston.
 He is a better player than Ronaldo.
 France is a bigger country than Britain.
COMPARATIVE ADJECTIVES
 When we want to describe how something  We often use the with comparative
or someone changes we can use two adjectives to show that one thing depends
comparatives with and: on another:

 The balloon got bigger and bigger.  The faster you drive, the more dangerous it
is.
 Everything is getting more and more
expensive.  (= When you drive faster, it is more
dangerous.)
 Grandfather is looking older and older.

 The higher they climbed, the colder it got.


 (= When they climbed higher, it got colder.)
LET`S TRY TO DO THE
EXERCISES
 4) My Latin class is ____(boring) than my
English class.
 1) Dogs are ____(intelligent) than rabbits.

 5) In the UK, the streets are generally


 2) Lucy is _____(old) than Ellie.
 _____(narrow) than in the USA.

 3) Russia is far ____(large) than the UK.


 6) London is _____(busy) than Glasgow.
SUPERLATIVE ADJECTIVES
 We use the with superlative adjectives:

 It was the happiest day of my life.


 Everest is the highest mountain in the world.
 That’s the best film I have seen this year.
 I have three sisters: Jan is the oldest and Angela is the youngest.
HOW TO FORM COMPARATIVE
AND SUPERLATIVE ADJECTIVES
 We usually add –er and –est to one-syllable  If an adjective ends in –e, we add –r or –
words to make comparatives and st:
superlatives:

 nice nicer nicest


 old older oldest
 large larger largest
 longlonger longest
 If an adjective ends in a consonant and –y,
 If an adjective ends in a vowel and a
we change –y to –i and add –er or –est:
consonant, we double the consonant:

 big bigger  happy happier happiest


biggest
 fat fatter fattest  sillysillier silliest
 We use more and most to make comparatives and superlatives for most two syllable
adjectives and for all adjectives with three or more syllables:

 careful more careful most careful

 interesting more interesting most interesting


 However, with these common two-syllable adjectives, you can either add –er/–r and –est/–st
or use more and most:

 common The adjectives good, bad and far have


irregular comparatives and superlatives:
 cruel

 gentle
good better best
 handsome
bad worse worst
 likely narrow
 pleasant far farther/further farthest/furthest

 polite

 simple

 Stupid

 He is certainly handsomer than his brother.

 His brother is handsome, but he is more handsome.

 She is one of the politest people I have ever met.

 She is the most polite person I have ever met.


LET`S TRY TO DO THE
EXERCISES
 My sister thinks she's_____(intelligent)  Who is______(powerful) person in your
than me, but I don't agree! country?
 Avatar is probably____(bad) film I've seen!  I think Men in Black 1 was____(funny)
than Men in Black 3.
 What is ____(wet) month of the year in
England?  Is Angelina Jolie_____(old) than Sandra
Bullock?
 Do you think the Harry Potter films are
 John is _____(nice) person that I know.
 ______(good) than the books?
1. big, ____,________
6. fine, _______,________

2. bright,_______,_________
7. fresh, ________,________
3. clean, _______,________

8. good,________,________
4. delicious, __________,__________

5. easy, _______,_________
9. new, ________,_________

10. safe, ________,_________

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