Comparative Adjectives

Spelling Rules

Adjectives with one syllable, we add:

• er / r

• er / ed

• ing / r

• ed / r / er

Spelling Rules

Adjectives with two or more syllables, add:

• more

• er / r

• ing / ed

• er / ed

Spelling Rules

Adjectives with two syllables that end in ‘-y’...........................

• change ‘-y’ to ‘i’ and add: ‘-er’

• change ‘-y’ to ‘o’ and add: ‘-er’

• change ‘-y’ to ‘a’ and add: ‘-er’

• change ‘-y’ to ‘e’ and add: ‘-er’

Spelling Rules

Adjectives that end in a single vowel and consonant: double the final consonant and add: ‘-er’

• double the final consonant and add: ‘-er’

• double the final consonant and add: ‘more’

• double the final consonant and add: ‘r’

• double the final consonant and add: ‘-ed’

Spelling Rules (true / false)

Irregular Adjectives change their forms:

Ex: good-bad- far

• True

• False

A Ferrari is __________________(confortable) a Fiat

• more comfortable than

• more comfortabler than

• comfortablier than

• comfortable than

Cars are _____________( fast) than bicycles

• faster

• more fast

• more faster

• fast

Glass bottles are _________(good) plastic bottles

• better than

• better

• worse than

• worse

A blue whale is _____________(heavy) twenty-five elephants

• heavier than

• more heavier than

• are heavier than

• heavy than

The wolf is ____________(big) than the cat.

• bigger

• biger

• more big

• more bigger