Comparatives and Superlatives

COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES

Revising comparatives and superlatives

COMPARATIVES

What do you remember?

Multiple Choice

Comparative adjectives are formed by:

• Adding -er to adjectives

• Adding -est to adjectives

• Adding -er to short adjectives, more + long adjectives and than

• Adding -est to short adjectives or the most + long adjectives

Multiple Choice

Complete this comparative sentence: Home Alone's home is ____________

• the most conveniently located

• more conveniently located than Carl and Ellie's home.

Comparatives

Comparative adjectives

Formed by:

• adding -er to short comparatives + than: Big- bigger

• more + long adjective + than: The Simpson's house is more comfortable than Spongebob's house.

Spelling rules

Comparatives with simple nouns and clauses:

• Some comparatives are formed by simple nouns.

• Some comparatives are formed by clauses.

CLAUSE:

• A sentence which consists of a subject+ verb+ object/complement.

Multiple Choice

Select the COMPARATIVE sentence which contains a SIMPLE NOUN.

• This house is more beautiful than the house I used to live in my childhood.

• This house is more beautiful than my friend's house.

Multiple Choice

Select the COMPARATIVE sentence which contains a CLAUSE.

• Shrek's house is more dilapidated than Up's house.

• Shrek's house is more dilapidated than I used to remember from the films.

• This house is becoming older and older.

To emphasise that something is changing

Double comparatives

Fill in the Blanks

Complete the sentence using a DOUBLE COMPARATIVE. This property is getting _____ ___ _____ (cheap)

Comparatives with The..., the...

To say that one thing changes with another.

Examples:

• The less you spend, the more you save.

• The more I learn about comparatives, the less I remember.

• The more we work, the more we earn.

Multiple Choice

The less I know about comparatives,

• the better.

• the worst.

• worse than.

Superlatives

Superlatives

• The Simpsons' home is the most interesting place to live.

The most + long adj

We add -est to short adjectives.

• The best place to live is Home Alone's house.

the + -est

Fill in the Blanks

Complete the sentence using SUPERLATIVES. "Privet Drive is ___ ____ _______ (substantial) home of the group because it appears in Harry Potter movies.

Superlatives with Present Perfect

You can use SUPERLATIVES with Present Perfect

Examples:

• This is the most beautiful house I've ever seen.

• Superlative adjectives is the easiest topic I've ever learnt.

With SUPERLATIVES and UNCOUNTABLE nouns.

• This house is the least spacious in town.

Least

With COMPARATIVES and UNCOUNTABLE nouns.

• This is a less crowded town than mine.

Less

Less and least

Multiple Choice

Complete with LESS or LEAST: This road takes _____ time to travel than the main road, due to traffic.

• less

• least

Multiple Choice

Complete with LESS or LEAST: This road takes the _____ time to travel.

• less

• least

Multiple Choice

Complete with LESS or LEAST: The second option is ____ risky than the first one, in my opinion.

• less

• least

Multiple Choice

Complete with LESS or LEAST: The second option is the ____ risky in my opinion.

• less

• least

Fewer and Fewest

We use:

• Fewer with comparatives and countable nouns:

  There are fewer houses in the country than in the town centre.

• Fewest with superlatives and countable nouns:

  This flat has the fewest rooms in town.

Fill in the Blanks

Complete with FEWEST or FEWER: There are

people in the beach now than in the morning.

Fill in the Blanks

Complete with FEWEST or FEWER: Compared to other years, this year got the

amount of Covid 19 cases.

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