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Comparative and Superlative Adjectives
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Created on March 24, 2024
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COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE ADJECTIVES
WHAT ARE COMPARATIVE ADJECTIVES?
Comparative adjectives are adjectives used to compare two people or things. We use them to say that one person or object has a higher degree of a quality than the other.
Examples: taller, smaller, smarter, brighter, cheaper.
HOW ARE THEY FORMED?
Depending on the number of syllables that the adjective has:
TWO OR MORE SYLL ABLE WORDS
ONE-SYLLABLE WORDS
We add "more" before the adjective and "than" after.
We add "er" or "r" at the end of the adjective and "than" after.
tall big cheap
taller bigger cheaper
safe old cold
safer older colder
expensive dangerous terrible
more expensive more dangerous more terrible
WHAT ARE SUPERLATIVE ADJECTIVES?
Superlative adjectives are used to describe an object which is at the upper or lower limit of a quality (the tallest, the smallest, the most expensive, the smartest). They are used in sentences where the object is compared to a group of objects.
ONE-SYLLABLE WORDS
TWO OR MORE SYLL ABLE WORDS
We add "the most" before the adjective.
We add "est" or "st" at the end of the adjective and "the" before.
expensive dangerous terrible
tallest biggest cheapest
most expensive most dangerous most terrible
tall big cheap