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GRAMMAR WORKSHEET 2
COMPARATIVES
Adjectives cold Adjectives ex-pen-
with one with two or sive
syllable, add: ‘- “In Canada, more
er’ or ‘-r’ + winter is syllables, “This book is
colder than
Irregular
‘than’ add: ‘more’ more Comparative
summer.” expensive Adjectives
+ ‘than’ than that
book.” good – better than
bad – worse than
Adjectives with Adjectives
hap- that end in a
big far – farther than
two syllables py further than
single vowel
that end in ‘-y’, “Russia is
and
change ‘-y’ to “John is bigger
consonant:
‘i’ happier than
double the
and add: ‘-er’ than Canada.”
final letter
+ ‘than’ David.”
before
adding ‘than’

 Fill in the blanks below to complete the sentences. Study the above boxes.

1. summer / winter / hot ______________________________________________ __

2. football / bowling / exciting _
3. Asia / Europe / big __
4. weekends / weekdays / good _
5. cats / lions / small _
6. John / Stewart / busy __
7. horses / cows / fast _
8. my uncle / my aunt / funny _
9. this movie / that movie / interesting ___
10. the flu / a cold / bad __
11. the sun / the moon / far __
12. I / my friend / tired __
13. tigers / giraffes / dangerous __
14. January / August / cold _

15. my grandfather / my father / old _