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Adjectives Part I: Comparatives be inspiring

To get to know what an adjectiveis, lets finish these sentences:

a/ The baby is.

b/ My house has a ..garden.

c/ Einstein is an .scientist.

Ifwe have a closer look at the words baby, house, and Einstein, we can see

that there is nothing special about them. But, if we added some words like:

a/ The baby is cute /good-looking / lovely /.

b/ My house has a beautiful / big / vast / garden.

c/ Einstein is anintelligent / outstanding / amazing /scientist.

Now, as you read each sentence with a word from the list (in blue colour), dont

you see a change in meaning? Yes, there is a change. The words in blue colour are

all adjectives. The adjectives role is to add a meaning and description to the

noun or pronoun it goes with.

Task 1: Match each adjective in column A with its opposite in column B:

Column A Column B

1/ modern a/ easy2/ small b/ exciting

3/ cheap c/ dirty

4/early d/ cold

5/ ugly e/ clever

6/ difficult f/ beautiful

7/ clean g/ late

8/ stupid i/ big

9/ hot j/ old10/ boring k/ expensive


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Key answers:

1->j 2->i 3->k 4->g 5->f

6->a 7->c 8->e 9->d 10->b

As you see, these adjectives (in column A and B) are two types. What do you think

they are?

For the sake our lesson here comparatives we will focus on short and long

adjectives:

a short adjective is an adjective that has one syllable like: easy big fathot small cheapcleanetc.

a long adjective is an adjective three or more syllables like: beautifuldifficult modern exciting expensive boring stupid

Lets now compare people based on this chart:

Lucy Jane Adjective

6 feet tall 5.5 feet tall tall

21 years old 14 years old young/old

Scores 17 at French Scores 10 at French smart

beautiful not beautiful beautiful **

So, we can say:

1. Lucy is taller than Jane.2. Jane is younger than Lucy.3. Lucy is smarter than Jane.4. Lucy is more beautiful than Jane.

Can you guess what the comparative is in the first three sentences? OK! See for

yourself that the adjectives have taken something attached to them at the end,

no? Yes, There is a little suffix attached at the end of the adjectives tall /

young / smart.+ er.


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Examples of comparative adjectives:

tall -> taller

smart -> smarter

Short -> shorter

hot -> hotter

cold -> colderRemember that a comparative cannot function unless there is than and two

entities being compared, as in our example here: Lucy and Jane are the two

entities we are comparing.

Finally, the rule must read as:

A+ (short) adjective +er +B

(A here is Lucy and, B here is Jane)

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