EVALUATION AND COMPARISON WITH ADJECTIVES AND NOUNS

EVALUATION AND COMPARISON WITH ADJECTIVES AND NOUNS

Adjectives are words that describe the qualities or states of being of nouns: enormous, doglike, silly, yellow, fun, fast. They can also describe the quantity of nouns: many, few, millions, eleven.

A noun is a word that names something, such as a person, place, thing, or idea.

ENOUGH/NOT ENOUGH

When something is “enough” it means that it is at a satisfactory level or quantity.

The phrase “not enough” is obviously a negative form of that – and it shows that things are not satisfactory!

For example:

- “There is not enough bread for the entire group to eat.”

TOO

Too is used to mean more than sufficient or more/less than necessary.

For example:

- It’s too late to stop him.

- Jerry was too young to watch the movie.

- There are too many people on this train, there’s nowhere to sit.

AS....AS

We use as + adjective/adverb + as to make comparisons when the things we are comparing are equal in some way:

For example:

- The world’s biggest bull is as big as a small elephant.

- The weather this summer is as bad as last year. It hasn’t stopped raining for weeks.

- You have to unwrap it as carefully as you can. It’s quite fragile.

NOT AS....AS

We use not as … as to make comparisons between things which aren’t equal:

For example:

- It’s not as heavy as I thought it would be, actually.

- Rory hasn’t grown as tall as Tommy yet.

- She’s not singing as loudly as she can.

AS MUCH AS/ AS MANY AS

When we want to make comparisons referring to quantity, we use as much as with uncountable nouns and as many as with plural nouns:

For example:

- Greg makes as much money as Mick but not as much as Neil.

- They try to give them as much freedom as they can.

- There weren’t as many people there as I expected.

TOO MUCH/MANY/FEW/LITTLE

When we want to talk about quantities which are more or less than enough, we use too much, too many, too few and too little before a noun:

For example:

- There’s too much salt in this soup. 

- There were too many dogs on the beach. 

- I don’t like this book because there are too few pictures in it. 

- The trip was cancelled because there was too little interest in it.

LET'S PRACTICE!

Multiple Choice

The house was too_______(small)

• smaller
• small
• the smallest
• the most small

Multiple Choice

Identify the ADJECTIVES in the sentence

The new teacher is nice to the class.

• the, nice

• class, new

• new, nice

• is, nice

Multiple Choice

Identify the NOUNS in the sentence.

Chips are my favorite snack.

• chips, favorite

• chips, snack.

• are, favorite

• my, snack

Multiple Select

6.This week is not ______ last week.

• sunnier as

• as sunny as

• sunny than

• than sunny

Multiple Select

4.The Nile River is not ______ the Amazon River.

• wider that

• as wide as

• as wide than

• than wider

Multiple Select

1. The Eiffel Tower has ______ the Statue of Liberty each year.

• more visitors than

• most visitors than

• more visitors as

• most as visitors