COMPARE

CONTRAST
PARAGRAPH
REZWANA ISLAM, LECTURER, CLS
WHAT IS IT?
Compare- Talk about similarities
Contrast- talk about
dissimilarities
2 TYPES

TWO THINGS ONE THING

Compare and contrast -Advantages and

- PEOPLE disadvantages
- PLACES -Positive and negative
- THINGS sides

Compare and contrast

city life and country life
Positive and negative
sides of living in a city
COMPARATIVE AND CONTRASTIVE
STRUCTURES
Compare Contrast
And More/less+
adjective/adverb+than/
Adjective-er+than
Both But/while/though
Bothand Not the same as
Also, too Not as.as
neither......nor/smiliar to/ Different from/in contrast
The same as
as+ adjective+ as /likewise however
similarly On the other hand
TWO METHODS OF WRITING A COMPARE
CONTRAST PARAGRAPH
Block Point by
method point
First part talk about Similarity between A
A and B
Second part talks Difference between A
about B and B
Conclusion Conclusion
rephrases the comments on the
controlling idea controlling idea
THANK YOU