August 18th-Wednesday

WELCOME TO CLASS. WEEK # 2

What are comparatives and superlatives?

We use comparatives and superlatives to say how people or things are different. We use a comparative adjective
to express how two people or things are different, and we use a superlative adjective to show how one person or
thing is different to all the others of its kind. For example,

Mick is  taller  than Jack.

Mick is  the tallest  person in the family.

Comparatives

Comparative adjectives enable us to express the difference between two people or things. In order to say that
someone or something has a superior quality, size, or characteristic, you need to use ‘more’. Instead, when you
want to say that someone or something has an inferior quality, size, or characteristic, you must use ‘less’.

More

The way we make a comparative with ‘more’ depends on the length of the word. There are three different cases:

1) More for long adjectives.

If an adjective has two or more syllables, we add the word ‘more’ in front to create the comparative form. For
example:

This hotel is more expensive than the last hotel we stayed at.
Reading is more interesting than watching television.

The sea here is more beautiful than the sea in my country.

2) -er for short adjectives

If an adjective has one syllable, or two syllables with -y as the second syllable, we add -er to create the
comparative. For example:

Your house is bigger than mine.

Taking the bus is cheaper than taking the car.

This box is heavier than that one.

Heavy -heavier

As you can see in the first example, if an adjective ends in a vowel and consonant (e.g. big) you need to double
the final consonant. For example, bigger, fatter, thinner.

3) Irregular comparatives

As is often the case in English, there are some adjectives that are irregular and don’t follow these rules. Here are
the irregular comparatives:

good – better

bueno- mejor

bad – worse

malo- peor

far – further  (U.K. English) farther  (US English)

fun – fun

For example,

Your cooking is better than my cooking.

Arriving late is worse than arriving early.

Their house is further from here than our house.

Going out is more fun than staying at home.

Using ‘than’ que

When you refer to the two people/things you are comparing, you need to use ‘than’. For example,

Living in the town is better than living in the country.

But if it’s clear what you’re referring to, it’s also possible to make a comparison without repeating one of the
things, and in this case you don’t need to use ‘than’. For example,

Living in the city is more expensive.

Less

We use ‘less’ to say that someone or something has an inferior quality, size or characteristic. It’s easy to use
because you simply put ‘less’ in front of any adjective. For example:

Walking is less tiring than running.

Australia is less populated than China.

Hamburgers are less healthy than vegetable

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=comparatives+with+teacher+lucy

1. Write the superiority comparative form of the following adjectives and translate:
 
beautiful →_____more beautiful_________________________ than                                             
wide →____wider__________________________ than
handsome →____handsomer_________________________ than                                           
lazy → _____lazyer_____________________________than 
ugly →_______uglier___________________________ than                                                     
serious → _more serious_______________________________than 
clever →____cleverer_____________________________ than                                                  
funny →__funnier_______________________________ than
soft →___softer________________________________ than                                                      
good → _better_________________________________than
hard → __harder_________________________________than                                                    
heavy →__heavier________________________________ than
loud →_____louder______________________________ than
nasty →__nastier________________________________ than                                                   
expensive →__more expensive_____________________________ than
dirty →___dirtier________________________________ than
2.Complete the sentences using the superiority comparative form of the adjectives in brackets:
  
 
darker
1. Cindy's hat is   (dark) than mine.
 
more dangerous
2. Snakes are   (dangerous) than rats.
 
longer
3. My old trousers are   (long) than those black ones.
 
cleverer
4. Mark is   (clever) than his brother.
 
more dificult
5. German is   (difficult) than English.
 
stronger
6. I am   (strong) than my friend.
 
taller
7. The teacher is   (tall) than me.
 
bigger
8. My friend's eyes are   (big) than mine.
 
better
9. He sings   (good) than Betty.
 
curlier
10. Lucy's hair is   (curly) than yours

3.COMPLETE THE ADJECTIVES USING THE COMPARATIVE FORM

 
more quiet
1. It´s too noisy here. Can we go to a                          (quiet) place?
bigger
2. The hotel was                                   (big) than that in which we stayed last year.
better
3. Your work is                                   (good) than mine.
worse
4. The accident could have been                                            (bad) than it was.
more nervous
5. I was                          (nervous) in my exam yesterday than Mark.
faster
6. I´d like to have a                          (fast) car. The one I have now is really old.
colder
7. Last week it was really hot. Today is                          (cold) than then.
 
 
4.WHICH IS CORRECT?
 
older
1. We have an                          brother who lives in Miami.
more serious
2. Her illness is                          than what the doctors expected.
colder
3. I like warm weather. If the weather is                         , I will get sick.
more beautiful
4. This dress is                          than that one.
richer
5. He is                          than Arthur.
farther
6. This road is                          than the motorway.
 worse
7. Was the TV programme                          than the film?