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.

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.

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.

Multiple Select

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

• The wettest

• Wetter than

Multiple Select

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

• the farthest

• farther

Multiple Select

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

Multiple Select

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

• the most beautiful

• more beautiful than