Comparative and

Superlative Adjectives
Miss Cinthia Zapata
 What is an adjective?
• An adjective is a word that tells us more about a
noun or a pronoun.
• An adjective describes or modifies a noun.
e.g:
fat easy far quite
tidy successful deep
bad young fast
interesting highnew
Comparative and Superlative
Adjectives
The comparative (a) Amanda is older than
compares this to that or Bernie
these to those. (b)Amanda and Bernie are
older than Carla and
Form: -er or more Diana.
Notice: A comparative is (c) Ed is more generous
followed by than. than his brother.

The superlative (d)A,B,C and D are sisters.

compares one part of a A is the oldest of
whole group to all the all the four sisters.
rest to the group. (e) A woman in Turkey
Form: -est or most claims to be the oldest
Notice: A superlative person in the world.
begins with the (f) Ed is the most
 How to compare
adjectives ?
1. Add -er and -est to short adjectives of one
syllable (sometimes two syllables)
Adjective  Comparative  Superlative
short   shorter   shortest
fat   fatter   fattest
small   smaller   smallest
old   older   oldest
How to compare adjectives?
2. If a short adjective ends with consonant and y,
change the y to i and add -er and -est.
Adjective   Comparative   Superlative
lucky   luckier   luckiest
heavy   heavier   heaviest happy  
happier   happiest
silly   sillier   silliest
ugly   uglier   ugliest
How to compare adjectives?
3. If a short adjective ends with e,
add -er and -st.
Adjective   Comparative  
Superlative little  
littler   littlest
fine   finer   finest
How to compare adjectives?
4. Put more(less) and most(least) in front of
longer adjectives (with two or more
syllables) to show comparison. Adjective  
Comparative   Superlative
successful   less successful   least
successful interesting  more interesting 
most interesting
beautiful   more beautiful   most
beautiful alert   more alert  
most alert
How to compare adjectives?
Some adjectives are irregular adjectives
and don't follow
these rules.
List of irregular adjectives. Adjective  
Comparative  Superlative bad  
worse   worst
far   farther   farthest
good   better   best
many   more   most
little   less   least
old   elder   eldest
How to compare adjectives?
Notice:
1.Never use -er or -est at the same time you use
more or most. These are incorrect: more shorter,
most alertest
2. When short adjectives end in vowel + a
consonant, double the consonant and add
-er/-est:
e.g: sad, sadder, saddest
Exercise 1
Write the comparative and superlative forms
of the following adjectives.
1. easy _________________ ______________
2. bad _________________ ______________
3. fast _________________ ______________
4. high _________________ ______________
5. deep _________________ ______________
6. lazy _________________ ______________
7. happy _________________ ______________
8. beautiful _______________ ______________
9. small ________________ ______________
10.dangerous ______________ ______________
Exercise 2
Complete the sentences with the correct
comparative form(more/-er) and
superlatives.
funnier
1. Her jokes are (funny)_______________than mine.
2. Driving a car is (dangerous)______________than
more dangerous
flying in an airplane.
3. His songs are (good)___________ than your songs.
better
4. Costa Rica is beautiful. It is one of _____________
countries in the world. the most
beautiful
5. Alaska is big. It is _________________ state in the
United States. the biggest
6. Jack is lazy. He is_________________ student in the
class.
the laziest
 Making comparisons with
as…as
As…as is used to say that (a) Tina is 21 years old.
the two parts of a Sam is also 21.
comparison are equal. Tina is as old as Sam.
In (a): as + adjective + as (b) Mike came as
In (b): as + adverbs + as quickly as he could.

Negative form: not as… © Ted is 20. Tina is 21.

as Ted is not as old as Tina.
(d) Bernie is not as tall
as Amanda.
Exercise 3
Using the given words, complete the
sentences with as…as. Use a negative verb
if appropiate. A lake is
1. a lake and an ocean: ___________ an
not asbig as__________. ocean
honey
2. honey and sugar:___________ is as__________.
sweet sugar
as
3. a fly and an ant: _____________ big as__________.
an ant is a fly
4. not as dangerous as ______________.
a lion and a tiger : _____________
a lion is
5. a galaxy and a solar system: __________ large
as
as__________________.
a tiger
a galaxy
is as
the solar
system.
good job!!!