Comparatives and Superlatives:

Rules For Long Adjectives

ADJECTIVE COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIVE

Long
adjectives More __ (than) (The) most __

ADJ: Dangerous More dangerous than The most dangerous

Comparatives and Superlatives: Exercise
Short Adjectives

ADJECTIVE COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIVE

-er (than) (The) -est
Big Bigger than The biggest
Wide Wider than The widest
Easy Easier than The easiest
 Comparatives and Superlatives:
Rules For Short Adjectives

ADJECTIVE COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIVE

Short
adjectives -er (than) (The) -est

ADJ: Tall Taller than The Tallest

Comparative and Superlative
 Comparative or Superlative?

Read the examples and say what they are:

• Mike is taller than Yukie.

• Marc is the shortest person of the class.

• This exercise is more difficult than the ther one.

• Blanes is the most beautiful place in the world!
 Exercise
1. The River Nile is ______ (long) than The River
Tordera.

2. A fireman is _______ (strong) than a 13 year-old

boy.

3. The _____ (tall) person in the class is Mary.

4. The Mona Lisa is the _______ (nice) painting I

have ever seen.
Comparatives and Superlatives: Exercise Long
Adjectives
ADJECTIVE COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIVE
More__ (than) (The) most
Beautiful More beautiful The most
than beautiful
Intelligent More intellignt The most
than intelligent

Difficult More difficult The most difficult

than
 Exercise
1. The River Nile is ______ (contaminated) than
The Amazon River.

2. A dog is _______ (intelligent) than a cat.

3. The _____ (educated) person in the family is my

grandpa.

4. The Mona Lisa is the _______ (beautiful)

painting I have ever seen.
 Can you compare them?

Catalan Chinese
1. (easy)

2. (difficult)
 Can you compare them?

The city The mountains

1. (noisy)

2. (peaceful)
 This is the …

This is the ______ (expensive) bill I ever had to pay!

 This is the …

This is the ______ (interesting) book I have ever read!

 This is the …

This is the ______ (funny) joke I have ever heard!

 This is the …

This is the ______ (boring) job I have ever done!

 Irregular Adjectives!

ADJECTIVE COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIVE

Good
Bad
 Irregular Adjectives!

ADJECTIVE COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIVE

Good Better than… The Best
Bad Worse than… The Worst