Comparative and superlative adjectives

Comparative and superlative adjectives

Comparatives

• We use comparative adjectives to compare two people or things to say if one has more of a quality than the other.

• Comparative adjectives are usually followed by than.

• With short adjectives we add -er. smaller, taller, bigger, shorter...

• With long adjectives we add before the adjective more. More beautiful, more expensive, more difficult.

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Put these adjectives in the comparative form (don´t forget the than):

thin, comfortable, nice, fast, heavy, wet, cheap, intelligent, slow, small.

Superlatives

• We use superlative adjectives to say that in a particular group, something has the most of a quality.

• Before the superlative adjectives we always add the.

• With short adjectives we add -est. tallest, smallest, biggest...

• With long adjectives we add before the adjective most. the most expensive, the most dificult, the most intelligent.

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Put these adjectives in the superlative form (don´t forget the):

hot, short, heavy, polite, uncomfortable, annoying, lazy, dry, cold.

Irregular adjectives

Multiple Choice

The comparative form of good is...

• gooder

• more good

• better

• more better

Multiple Choice

The superlative form of good is...

• the goodest

• the best

• the most good

• the most best

Multiple Choice

the comparative form of little is...

• least

• less

• littler

• littlest

Multiple Choice

The superlative form of little is...

• littler

• less

• littlest

• least

Multiple Choice

The comparative form of bad is...

• badder

• worse

• baddest

• worst

Multiple Choice

The superlative form of bad is ...

• worse

• badder

• worst

• baddest

(not) as...as

• We use as + adjective/adverb + as to say that two things are the same: Hannah is as tall as Jess.

• We use not as + adjective/adverb + as to say that one thing is less than another: My brother isn´t as fit as me.

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Rewrite this sentence using the structure (not) as ... as.

I am tired. Kevin is also tired.

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Rewrite this sentence using the structure (not) as ... as.

Andrew is lazier than Wendy.

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Rewrite this sentence using the structure (not) as ... as.

Australia is big but Canada is bigger.

Multiple Select

It rained every day in December 2015 in Portland, USA. It was ______ (wet) December for 75 years.

• The wettest

• Wetter than

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We´ve moved house. Now we live _______ (far) from my school than we used to.

• the farthest

• farther

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A blue whale is ________ (heavy) than an elephant.

• heavier

• the heaviest

Multiple Select

This writer´s new book is _______ (bad) than her others.

• worse

• worst

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Some people think that the Sydney Opera House is __________ (beautiful) modern building in the world.

• the most beautiful

• more beautiful than