Comparatives And Superlatives

-er than and more … than

Comparatives and superlatives with

The comparative forms are used to compare two people, animals, things, situations where the first mentioned is MORE than the second. It is important to mention that once we have the comparative forms it is necessary to follow these rules: I-

The first group is about the words that we only have to add the –er ending to the simple form. Basically, it happens in most of the one

syllable adjectives and adverbs; ex: Cheap High Cold Long Dark Loud Hard New cool old Note: for the superlative form add -est II-

Poor Proud Rich Short sick

Slow Small Sweet Tall Warm

The second group is about the words that end in a consonant

followed by a vowel. The procedure consists in duplicating the last consonant and adds –er. ex: big – bigger Fat Sad Hot thin Note: for the superlative form add -est III-

wet

The third group is about words ended in –y. In that case –y changes to –i and add –er. ex: happy – happier.

Early Dirty Easy Friendly Angry Funny Busy Healthy Cloudy Heavy Note: for the superlative form add –est

Hungry Lucky Noisy Pretty Sunny

Tasty Ugly Windy

IV-

It is about the short words that end in –e, and add –r. ex: huge – huger.

Nice Late Large Brave Note: for the superlative for add –st V-

Fine Little

It is about the words of two or more, place the word MORE . it is important to highlight that those words don’t change. Ex: the black suitcase is MORE expensive THAN the brown one.

Beautiful Unhappy Famous Boring Delicious Worried Careful Different Handsome Correct Difficult Important Dangerous Excited Interesting Note: For the superlative form place the word MOST before VI-

Nervous Nutritious Popular Special Terrible the adjective-

It is about the irregular comparatives. The irregularity of these adjectives and adverbs is that their comparative forms vary little or much. So, they can’t be predicted. Simple form Good well Badly bad Far Less

Comparative better better worse worse Farther /further least

Superlative Best best Worst Worst Farthest / furthest least

Teacher: Danny Ramírez Matarrita