This document provides definitions and examples of English grammar terms including:
1. Ways to say numbers and fractions in English such as "one hundred" and "a third".
2. How to form comparatives like "busier" and superlatives like "the busiest" in English.
3. The structure of comparative sentences using "than" or "as...as".
This document provides definitions and examples of English grammar terms including:
1. Ways to say numbers and fractions in English such as "one hundred" and "a third".
2. How to form comparatives like "busier" and superlatives like "the busiest" in English.
3. The structure of comparative sentences using "than" or "as...as".
This document provides definitions and examples of English grammar terms including:
1. Ways to say numbers and fractions in English such as "one hundred" and "a third".
2. How to form comparatives like "busier" and superlatives like "the busiest" in English.
3. The structure of comparative sentences using "than" or "as...as".
impatient (adj) easily annoyed by someone's mistakes or
because you have to wait
return (verb) becoming annoyed very easily
queue (noun)
search (verb) to try to find someone or something
irritable (adj) to go or come back to a place where you were
before
instant (adj) unable to move, or set in a particular position,
place, or way of thinking. (Seven of us were ____ in the lift for over an hour.)
expect (verb) to think or believe something will happen, or
someone will arrive
stuck (adj) happening immediately, without any delay (The
film was an ____ success)
1. We can use a/one when saying numbers, e.g. one hundred/ a
hundred. 2. with fractions: you can say a third or one third, e.g. ⅓ 3. we don’t add an -s to hundred, thousand, or million 4. With decimals, e.g. 3.14, we use point, not dot (unlike email addresses). 1. I’m busier/more busy than I was five years ago. 2. People are impatientier/more impatient today than in the past. 3. People aren’t as patients as/ as patient than they were before. 4. I’m less relaxed/relaxing this year than I was last year. 5. Life is faster/more fast than before. 6. Traffic in cities is worse/more bad than it was. 7. The service in this restaurant isn’t as good as/as good than it was.
A. We use comparatives to compare two people, places, or
things. (T/F) B. To one syllable adjective add the ending ____ . C. Words ending in - y ---> ___ D. To long words (2/3/4 syllables) add ____ + adjective. E. the structure as….as is more common in positive/negative sentences. It is also very common with much and many. I don’t eat as much as you. F. one syllable adjective ending in -ed, add ____ + adjective.
1. People walk more quickly/quicklier then in the past.
2. My brother speaks French, but less fluent/fluently than me. 3. She doesn’t drive as fast/fastly as her brother.
A. We use comparative adverbs to compare two actions. (T/F)
B. Adverbs ending in: -ly: _____ + adverb. C. After comparative +than, as…as we use an object pronoun (me, her, etc.) or a subject pronoun + verb (T/F) ● My brother is taller than me. My brother is taller than I am.