HOMEWORK

Name: David Villamarin

1. Explain the differen

t forms of the comparative and the superlative

COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE

ADJECTIVES IN COMPARATIVE DEGREE

The comparison is used in English to compare differences between the two objects that it modifies
(larger, smaller, faster, and higher). It is used in sentences where we compare two names, in the
following way:

Name (subject) + verb + adjective in comparative degree + than + name (object).

ADJECTIVES AT A SUPERLATIVE DEGREE

The superlative is used to describe an object that is at the upper or lower end of a quality (the
tallest, the smallest, the fastest, the highest). It is used in sentences in which we compare a subject
with a group of objects, like here:

Name (subject) + verb + the + adjective in superlative degree + name (object).

2. Write 5 comparative sentences using "(not) as... as"

 I came as quickly as I could.

 His pronunciation is not as good as mine.
 She is as intelligent as her brother.
 We get up as early as our parents.
 It is as cold today as it was yesterday.
 You don’t study as hard as the others students.

3. Explain the forms of the Simple Past with examples (affirmative sentences, negative
sentences, questions)

The "simple past" is used to talk about an action that ended in a time before the current one. The
duration is not relevant. The time in which the action is located may be the recent past or a distant
past.
EXAMPLES

 They weren't in Rio last summer.

 We didn't have any money.
 We didn't have time to visit the Eiffel Tower.
 We didn't do our exercises this morning.
 Were they in Iceland last January?
 Did you have a bicycle when you were young?
 Did you do much climbing in Switzerland?

4. Explain the forms of the Past Continuous with examples (affirmative sentences, negative
sentences, questions)

The continuous past is used for actions that were happening at a specific time in the past. As the
present continuous, it is formed with the auxiliary verb "to be" and the verb + ing.

Grammatical Rules
EXAMPLE:

Affirmative:

 I was talking
 He was eating.
 They were learning.

Negative:

 I was not [wasn’t] talking.

 He was not [wasn’t] eating.
 They were not [weren’t] learning.

Question

 Were you talking?

 Was he eating?
 Were they learning?