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1.Examples:
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Adjective
Comparative
Superlative
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2.Grammar: explanation:
2.1.One-syllable adjectives:
Regular comparison:
e.g.
adjective comparative superlative
Short shorter shortest
Late later latest
Thin thinner thinnest
Most adjectives:……………………………………………………
Adjectives ending in –e:………………………………………
One vowel + one consonant:…………………………………
Irregular comparison:
e.g.
Adjective comparative superlative
Good better best
Bad worse worst
2.2.Two-syllable adjectives:
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e.g.
adjective comparative superlative
simple simpler simplest
With many two-syllable adjectives (e.g.polite, common), -er / -est and more /
most are both possible. With others (including adjectives ending in –ing, -ed, -ful
and –less), only more / most is possible. To find out the normal comparative and
superlative for a particular two-syllable adjective, check in a good dictionary.
2.3.Longer adjectives:
e.g.
adjective comparative superlative
energetic more energetic most energetic
!e.g.
Adjective comparative superlative
Unhappy unhappier unhappiest
Words like unhappy (the opposites of two-syllable adjectives ending in –y) are
an exception.
e.g.
adjective comparative superlative
good-looking better-looking best-looking
more good-looking most good-looking
well-known better-known best-known
more well-known most well-known
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4.Exercises:
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5.Choose a comparative or superlative. Remember to use the before the
superlatives.
e.g.My new car is faster than my old one. (fast)
1.My mother and her sisters are all…………………………………… than their children.
(short)
2.I think Annie is………………………………………………………person in our class. (intelligent)
3.Let’s meet in the library-it’s…………………………………………………than all the other
rooms. (quiet)
4.My bedroom is………………………………………………room in the house. (cold)
5.A 3-year-old’s voice is………………………………………………than 200 people in a busy
restaurant. (loud)
6.Brazil is……………………………………………………South American country. (big)
6.Write two endings for each sentence: one with than me, than you etc.
and one with than I am, than you are, etc.
e.g.Bob was angry, but I was angrier than him / than he was.
1.John’s very careful with money, but Maria…………………………………………………………………
2.I’m hungry, but you must be……………………………………………………………………………………………
3.You’re not very short. Tony’s………………………………………………………………………………………….
4.We’re exited, but our children………………………………………………………………………………………
5.My girlfriend is so beautiful. No other woman……………………………………………………………
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