Comparative III

COMPARATIVES

We use COMPARATIVE ADJECTIVES

to describe or compare two people

or two things.

1 SYLLABLE ADJECTIVE (cold)

ADJECTIVE+ER

colder (than)

1 SYLLABLE ADJECTIVE -E (large)

ADJECTIVE+R

WRONG: largeer

RIGHT: larger

1 SYLLABLE ADJECTIVE -CVC (wet)

ADJECTIVE ENDING IN CONSONANT+VOWEL+CONSONANT=

DOUBLE CONSONANT

WRONG: weter

RIGHT: wetter



2 SYLLABLE ADJECTIVE -Y (foggy)

ADJECTIVE+ier

WRONG: foggyer

RIGHT: foggier

2 OR MORE SYLLABLES (beautiful)

MORE + ADJECTIVE + (THAN)

more beautiful than

Multiple Choice

Of course, comedies are .......... (funny) action movies.

• funnyer than

• funnier than

• funny

Multiple Choice

This restaurant is bad, but the restaurant we ate at last week was ....

• bad

• worse

• worse than