Comparative Adjectives and Adverbs

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Comparative Adjectives and Adverbs

• Short adjectives use er.
• Long ones use more.

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How Do Adjectives Function?

• Adjectives add specific information to noun
  forms
• Guys with slow cars want faster ones.
• Adjectives tell us what kind of
• What kind of test is it going to be?
• Is it a hard one or an easy one?

Is the girls question a more common one?
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How Do Adverbs Function?

• Adverbs tell us when, how or to what degree.
• They modify verbs and adjectives
• Kalil drove quickly to college.
• Rocio went rapidly past the police car.
• Vera is very pretty.
• Khan sees poorly without glasses.

How much does the little guy know?
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Do All Adverbs End with -ly?

• Is the professor __ upset?
• The semester ends __.
• We were __ in the afternoon.
• The team played __ enough to win.
• __ is the last day to enroll.

• Fill in the blanks with the words
• soon
• there
• well
• very
• tomorrow

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Here are the answers

• Is the professor very upset?
• The semester ends soon.
• We were there in the afternoon.
• The team played well enough to win.
• Tomorrow is the last day to enroll.

• Fill in the blanks with the words
• soon
• there
• well
• very
• tomorrow

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How About Comparative Adjectives?

• In the comparative, short, one syllable
  adjectives and adverbs add er.
• Chinese is tougher than English.
• Maria studied harder than I did.
• Gabriella looks better than her younger sister
  does.
• Do you feel worse today than yesterday?

Are good looks better than winning?
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What About Longer Comparatives?

• Adjectives and adverbs of more than one syllable
  become comparative by adding the word more.
• My accident was more expensive than yours was.
• Your car drives more smoothly than mine does.
• Students are more comfortable writing on the
  computers.

Is there always more?
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What About Words Ending with -y?

• Comparatives ending in y become ier.
• Ana is happier than ever before.
• Michelle seems funnier than her older brother
  does.
• Your ink pen is messier than mine.
• This joke is funnier than that one.

Do dogs always find windier places?
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Do Comparatives Use That or Than?

• Some ESL writers use that instead of the proper
  than in comparatives.
• The ESOL class in high school was easier (that,
  than) college ESL.
• US football players are most often clumsier
  (that, than) soccer players.
• No one knew (that, then) our class ended next
  month.

Is it possible to score lower than chance?
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Can We Use Double Comparatives?

• People sometimes use incorrect double
  comparatives.
• McDonalds is more better than Burger King.
• Express Avenue is more nosier than Solitude Lane.

Does the gambler need more or better luck?
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What Is Beyond Comparative?

• Comparatives note differences between two things.
• Superlatives make differences among three or more
  things.
• 1. Her bell is loud.
• Our bell is louder.
• Your bell is the loudest of all.
• Superlatives indicate extremes
• Who was the meanest teacher that you ever had?

Is the boy beyond help?
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What About Longer Superlatives?

• Superlatives of one syllable add est.
• Of the girls, her skin is the darkest.
• Superlatives of two or more syllables add most.
• Of all the students in this class, he is the most
  dependable.

Does the little guy think he is superboy?
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When Can We Use the Superlative?

• The superlative is used only for more than two
  things.
• Between red and blue, red is the (hotter,
  hottest) color.
• This is the (funnier, funniest) picture of the
  two you have.
• Of the three papers, this one is (a better, the
  better, the best).

Is Box-O-Air the best for diets?
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Can We Use Most and -est?

• Never combine most with est.
• Prince Charles did the (best, most best) thing
  that he could for her.
• Everyone likes Adri because she has the (nicest,
  most nicest) smile and disposition.

Is Bobs job the nicest?
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Can You Use the Superlative?

• Jose is the ___ person I know.
• a. funny, b. funnier, c. funniest.
• The champions won the ___ games.
• a. many, b. most, c. more.
• An orange is ___ a lemon.
• a. sweet, b. sweeter, c. more sweet.

Is the husband any different?
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Can We Use Most and -est?

• 1. Whats your __ moment of all?
• a. most anxious, b. more anxious.
• 2. Which is your __ season?
• a. good, b. better, c. best, d. bester.
• 3. Lets avoid __ sentence errors!
• a. a bad, b. some worse, c. the worst
• Who has __ errors on the essay?
• a. the more, b. the fewest, c. the less
• 5. When is __ that you can come tomorrow?
• a. the earliest, b. the earlier, c. the more
  early

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Answers to Most and est

• 1. Whats your __ moment of all?
• a. most anxious, b. more anxious.
• 2. Which is your __ season?
• a. good, b. better, c. best, d. bester.
• 3. Lets avoid __ sentence errors!
• a. a bad, b. some worse, c. the worst
• Who has __ errors on the essay?
• a. the more, b. the fewest, c. the less
• 5. When is __ that you can come tomorrow?
• a. the earliest, b. the earlier, c. the more
  early.

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Can you use comparatives?

• __1. Which river is __ in the world?
• a. the longer, b. the more long, c. the longest
• __2. Eva has studied here __ Eduardo has.
• a. longer than, b. more long that, c. long as.
• __3. It is __ to learn English as it is to learn
  math.
• a. so hard, b. as hard, c. too hard.
• __4. The __ you study, the __ you will learn.
• a. hardbetter, b. moremore, c. lessfewer.
• __5. No one knows __ about the lottery as Joe
  does.
• a. as much, b. more, c. the most.

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Here are the comparative answers

• __1. Which river is __ in the world?
• a. the longer, b. the more long, c. the longest
• __2. Eva has studied here __ Eduardo has.
• a. longer than, b. more long that, c. long as.
• __3. It is __ to learn English as it is to learn
  math.
• a. so hard, b. as hard, c. too hard.
• __4. The __ you study, the __ you will learn.
• a. hardbetter, b. moremore, c. lessfewer.
• __5. No one knows __ about the lottery as Joe
  does.
• a. as much, b. more, c. the most.

The End