comparative and superlative adjectives
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CLASS SURVEY
1. How do you get to school?
2. How long does it take you?
3. Do you have a pleasant journey?
ANSWERS
• By train
• By car
• By bus
• By motorbike
• By bike
• On foot
• Hitchhiking
It takes me:
• 20 minutes
• Half an hour
• More than 40 minutes
if I get stuck in a
traffic jam
RESULTS
• _________ is the fastest.
• _________ is the slowest.
• ________ uses the most comfortable form of transport.
• ________ uses the least enviromentally friendly form of transport.
• _______ has the most pleasant journey.
• _______ has the most unpleasant journey.
Which is the.... ....
• Most Enviromentally friendly
• Most Convenient
• Most Comfortable
• Fastest
• Cheapest
• Slowest
COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES
• Comparatives are adjectives and adverbs that end in –er (e.g. bigger, richer, faster)
• Superlatives are adjectives and adverbs that end in –est (e.g. biggest, richest, fastest)
RULES OF THUMB 1. In general with one syllable adjectives we add
–er or –est:
He drove faster this morning.
It is a lot hotter in Indian that in the UK.
2. Adjectives with two syllables: ending in: -y, we add + -ier or + -iest
happy, pretty, busy, sunny, lucky
A car is heavy, a truck is heavier, but a train is the
heaviest.
TO BE REMEMBERED...
3. With one syllable adjectives with the spelling consonant + single vowel + consonant: double the final consonant:
Fat/ fatter /the fattest
Big/ bigger / the biggest
sad / sadder / saddest
4. With adjectives that are also past participles we use MORE/THE MOST:
burnt, drunk, forced, lost, spoiled, tired, torn
I’m getting more and more tired.
LONG ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS 5. We use more and most with long adjectives and adverbs: It was the most expensive wine in the shop. She talks more energetically when she’s in with people she knows. A park bench is comfortable, a restaurant chair is more comfortable, but a sofa is the most comfortable
IRREGULAR COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES
Irregular Adjectives:
Good / better/ the best
Bad / worse / the worst
Far / further/ the furthest
Irregular Adverbs
Badly / worse / the worst
Far / further / the furthest
Well / better/ the best
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