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Comparative and Superlative

This document discusses comparative and superlative adjectives in English. It provides rules for forming comparatives and superlatives for adjectives of different lengths and endings. Examples are given for regular and irregular forms. Sentence structures are demonstrated and exercises provided for learners to practice using comparative and superlative adjectives correctly.

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Comparative and Superlative

This document discusses comparative and superlative adjectives in English. It provides rules for forming comparatives and superlatives for adjectives of different lengths and endings. Examples are given for regular and irregular forms. Sentence structures are demonstrated and exercises provided for learners to practice using comparative and superlative adjectives correctly.

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COMPARATIVE and SUPERLATIVE

We use comparative adjectives to compare two people, animals or things.


*New York is bigger than Madrid
*Sally is more beautiful than Pat
We use superlative adjectives to compare more than two people, animals or things
• Brazil is the largest country in South America * Money isn’t the most important thing in life FORM
*(ONE SYLLABLE) :
COMPARATIVE - Adjective + -er + than - John is taller than Charles
SUPERLATIVE - the + adjective + -est - John is the tallest boy in the class
* (TWO or MORE SYLLABLES)
COMPARATIVE - More + adjective + than - Mary is more intelligent than Jane SUPERLATIVE - the
most + adjective - Mary is the most intelligent girl in the class
* (IRREGULAR)
good(bueno)/well(bien) - better (mejor) - the best (el mejor)
bad (malo) - worse (peor) - the worst (el peor)

far (lejos) - farther / further (más lejos) - the farthest / the furthest (el más lejano) little(poco)
- less (menos) - the least (el menor, lo menos) much(mucho) - more (más)
- the most (el más) many(muchos) - more (más) - the most (los más)

SPELLING
*Adjectives of one syllable that end in -e: add -r / -st
large - larger - the largest
nice - nicer - the nicest
• Adjectives that end in a vowel + consonants -t, -d, -g, -m, -n : double the consonant and add -er/-est
fat - fatter - the fattest
slim – slimmer - the slimmest
big - bigger - the biggest

• Adjectives of two syllables that end in -y:


change the -y to an -i and add -er / -est
busy – busier - the busiest
easy – easier - the easiest
early - earlier – the earliest

*Long words(2 / 3 / 4 syllables): add more / the most


modern - more modern - the most modern
beautiful - more beautiful - the most beautiful
expensive - more expensive - the most expensive
Write sentences using the comparative form of the adjectives.
0 Mary / tall / her sister

Mary is taller than her sister


1 Mount Everest / high / Mont Blanc
2 Maths / easy / Physics
3 A cheetah / fast / a tiger
4 The book / interesting / the film
5 The south of Spain / dry / the north
Complete the sentences. Use the superlative form of the words in the list.
beautiful | hot | scary | dry | tall | delicious
0 In Cyprus, August is the hottest month.
1 Chocolate is the food in the world.
2 The Burj Khalifa in Dubai is the building in the world.
3 I think snakes are the world’s animals.
4 The Atacama Desert is the world’s place.
5 These are the flowers in my garden.

Circle the correct answer A, B or C.


A crocodile 0 B eat all kinds of animals, but an elephant is much
1. In fact, it can kill a rhinoceros. So an elephant is 2__________ than a crocodile.
How fast 3______________ run? It isn’t really 4__________________ animal in the world. It runs 5_____________ than a koala and it can
move at five kilometres per hour.
0 A is B can C is good at

1 A strong B stronger C strongest


2 A most dangerous B dangerouser C more dangerous
3 A a tortoise can B can a tortoise C is a tortoise
4 A the most slow B more slow C the slowest
5A more good B most good C better

Write the sentences with the comparative form of the adjectives.


0 John / intelligent / Tom John is more intelligent than Tom.
1 Antarctica / cold / Greece
2 I think spring / colourful / winter
3 My father’s tablet / good / mine
4 Edinburgh / far from London / Cardiff
5 Austria / big / Switzerland

Complete the sentences with the superlative form of the adjectives.

0 The cheetah is the fastest (fast) animal in the world. 1 Ushuaia in South America is the________ (far) city from where I live.
2 The________ (expensive) hotels are in Dubai. 3 July is the______ (sunny) month of the year. 4 That was the________
(bad) experience of my life. 5 Where’s the_______ (cold) place in the world?
9Complete the sentences with the comparative or superlative form of the adjectives. 0 This is the best (good) holiday
of the year. It’s better (good) than last year. 1 I think this is the________ (bad) film of the season. Last year the films
were (interesting). 2 The___________ (dry) place in the world isn’t the Sahara desert. The Atacama desert in Chile is
(dry) than the Sahara. 3 Chinese is__________ (difficult) than English, but Arabic is the_________________ (difficult)
language in the world. 4 The (fast)___________________ train is the Chinese Shanghai Maglev. It’s (fast) than the Italian
Frecciarossa. 5 My granddad the___________ (old) person in my family and my baby sister is the____________ (young).

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