Comparative and

superlative adjectives
&
indirect questions
Mateusz Kokoszka kl.2j
Comparative and superlative
adjectives
Comparative We use comparative adjectives to show change or make
comparisons:
This car is certainly better, but it's much more expensive.

adjectives I'm feeling happier now.

We need a bigger garden.

When we want to describe how something or

someone changes we can use two comparatives with
and:
The balloon got bigger and bigger.
Everything is getting more and more expensive.
Grandfather is looking older and older.

We use than when we want to compare one thing

with another:
She is two years older than me.
New York is much bigger than Boston.
He is a better player than Ronaldo.
France is a bigger country than Britain.

We often use the with comparative adjectives to show that

one thing depends on another:
The faster you drive, the more dangerous it is.
(= When you drive faster, it is more dangerous.)
The higher they climbed, the colder it got.
(= When they climbed higher, it got colder.)
Superlative
adjectives
We use the with superlative adjectives:
It was the happiest day of my life.
Everest is the highest mountain in the world.
That’s the best film I have seen this year.
I have three sisters: Jan is the oldest and Angela is
the youngest.
How to form comparative and
superlative adjectives?
Question tags
Grammar We can add question tags like isn't it?, can you? or didn't
they? to a statement to make it into a question. Question

explanation tags are more common in speaking than writing.

We often use question tags when we expect the listener to

agree with our statement. In this case, when the statement
is positive, we use a negative question tag.

She's a doctor, isn't she?

Yesterday was so much fun, wasn't it?

If the statement is negative, we use a positive question tag.

He isn't here, is he?

The trains are never on time, are they?
Nobody has called for me, have they?

If we are sure or almost sure that the listener will confirm

that our statement is correct, we say the question tag with a
falling intonation. If we are a bit less sure, we say the
question tag with a rising intonation.
Formation
 Thank you!
Mateusz Kokoszka kl.2j

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/grammar/b1-b2-grammar/question-tags
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/grammar/english-grammar-reference/comparative-superlative-adjectives