Comparative structures

Comparative structures

Guess- What is?

• The more you have, the less you see

• The more it dries, the wetter it gets.

• It's harder to catch, the faster you run.

Multiple Choice

Compartive structures showing two things changing or developing together

• These people have literally no further to fall than the pavement breath

• The public are much more likely to pick up coffe

• Change Please is the more successful of two projects

• The faster it happens, the better it will be

• Easily the most successful venture to date...

Multiple Choice

Comparative instead of superative when two things in a group

• These people have literally no further to fall than the pavement breath

• The public are much more likely to pick up coffe

• Change Please is the more successful of two projects

• The faster it happens, the better it will be

• Easily the most successful venture to date...

Multiple Choice

Intensified comparatives for emphasis

• These people have literally no further to fall than the pavement breath

• The public are much more likely to pick up coffee

• Change Please is the more successful of two projects

• The faster it happens, the better it will be

• Easily the most successful venture to date...

Multiple Choice

Intensified superaltive for emphasis

• These people have literally no further to fall than the pavement breath

• The public are much more likely to pick up coffee

• Change Please is the more successful of two projects

• The faster it happens, the better it will be

• Easily the most successful venture to date...

Multiple Choice

Irregular comparative

• These people have literally no further to fall than the pavement breath

• The public are much more likely to pick up coffee

• Change Please is the more successful of two projects

• The faster it happens, the better it will be

• Easily the most successful venture to date...

Irregular adjectives:

• far - further - the furthest

• little - less - the least

• much/many- more - the most

• good- better - the best

• bad - worse - the worst

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Like

• similar to

• when we compare 2 nouns

• example: people like Liam like The Big Issue

• like and such as to give examples

• examples: skills like/such as to give examples

• Notice: the position and use of ALIKE

• example: It benefits the suppliers and homeless alike.

As

• to talk about a job or function

• example: being trained as baristas, work as a team

• in certain phrases

• example: As everyone in a city knows, ...

• example: Liam sees this as...

• + pronoun / verb

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Multiple Choice

Your sister looks just _____ Brigitte Bardot

• AS

• LIKE

Multiple Choice

______________ I told you before, I don't like discos.

• AS

• LIKE

Multiple Choice

She likes the same music ___ me.

• AS

• LIKE

Multiple Choice

I wish I could speak Spanish __________ you.

• AS

• LIKE

Multiple Choice

The older you get...

• as soon you get tired

• the sooner you get tired

• tired the soonest

Multiple Choice

She will be really angry about that vase being broken! The ____ she knows about it, the ____.

• more - better

• less - better

• worse - worse

• worse - better

Multiple Choice

The ____ you study for these exams, the ____ you will do.

• hard - better

• harder - more successfully

• much - better

• more - good