COMPARATIVES

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COMPARATIVES
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COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES

• One-syllable adjectives and two-syllable
  adjectives ending in y add er

• small
• nice
• big
• warm
• hot
• pretty
• dirty

• smaller
• nicer
• bigger
• warmer
• hotter
• prettier
• dirtier

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COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES

• We use more with two-syllable adjectives and
  longer ones

• more interesting
• more expensive
• more dangerous
• more common
• more comfortable
• more boring

• interesting
• expensive
• dangerous
• common
• comfortable
• boring

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COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES

• Some adjectives have irregular forms

• good
• bad
• far

• better
• worse
• farther/further

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COMPARATIVE PATTERNS

• We use asas to say that two things are equal or
  unequal.
• Our house is as big as yours.
• It isnt as cold as yesterday.
• We often use a phrase with than after the
  comparison.
• Fruit is healthier than cakes.
• After than we use an object pronoun or a personal
  pronoun with a verb.
• She is younger than me / than I am
• He speaks English better than me / than I do.

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COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES

• Now lets practise!
• Use the adjectives given to compare the pictures.

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Practice 1
FRUIT
healthy expensive sweet tasty expensive
CHOCOLATE
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Practice 2
ENGLISH
FRENCH
difficult easy useful beautiful
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Practice 3
SPAIN
cold hot big populated popular with tourists
CANADA
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Practice 4
COOKING
CLEANING
boring useful time-consuming creative good
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Practice 5
A BIKE
AN SUV
slow cheap eco-friendly polluting comfortable
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Practice 6
SNOWBOARDING
FOOTBALL
popular dangerous expensive amusing
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Practice 7
GIJON
cosmopolitan crowded polluted cheap noisy
TOKYO