Ingles 2 - Adjetivos Comparativos

Similarities & Differences

English II - Licenciatura en Marketing y Gestión de Ventas

Adjectives

What are they?

Adjectives describe or modify nouns, giving more information about an object or person (e.g., size, color, shape). Answer questions like: What kind? Which one? How many?

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TYpes of Adjectives

Demostrative

Possessive

Quantitative

Descriptive

many few some

tall beatiful angry

my his your

this that those

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Temperament Characteristics (Nature)

Adjectives

She often travels alone, to remote places. She is brave and adventurous. Dave got 100% in his exam, but he didn’t tell me! He is both intelligent and modest! I think my teacher is quite bossy! She is always telling everyone what to do. Daniel is rather clumsy. He’s always dropping things in the kitchen or tripping over the chairs.

Temperament adjectives describe a person's nature or personality. Common Temperament Adjectives:

• Positive: kind, brave, optimistic, creative, curious
• Negative: lazy, stubborn, arrogant, jealous, careless

Equality Adjectives: "As... as"

The structure "as... as" is used to compare two things that are equal in some way. Affirmative: The adjective is placed between "as" and "as." Example: "She is as tall as her brother." Negative: "Not as... as" shows inequality. Example: "This book is not as interesting as the movie."

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Comparative Form of Adjectives

Used to show the difference between two nouns. The comparative form depends on the number of syllables in the adjective.

more

-er

long adjectives

Short adjectives

To make comparative forms with one-syllable adjectives, we usually add -er: old → older clean → cleaner slow → slower If an adjective ends in -e, we add -r: safe → safer nice → nicer If an adjective ends in a vowel and a consonant, we usually double the consonant: big → bigger hot → hotter

We use more to make comparative forms for most other two-syllable adjectives and for all adjectives with three or more syllables: crowded → more crowdedstressful → more stressfuldangerous → more dangerous

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Superlatives

Irregular adjectives

Superlatives are used to express the highest or lowest degree of a quality when comparing three or more things. For short adjectives, add -est (e.g., "fast" → "fastest"). For long adjectives, use "the most" (e.g., "intelligent" → "the most intelligent"). Examples: "This is the biggest cake I’ve ever seen." "She is the most talented singer in the group."

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Her name is Jenna. My car is very old. He's broken his arm Our apartment is on the top floor

This shirt is too small. Where are those people from? That cafe's open. These plants are thriving

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short adjective

If a two-syllable adjective ends in a consonant and -y, we change -y to -i and add -er: noisy → noisier happy → happier easy → easier

Would you like some cake? She has five siblings. Several flowers There isn’t much time left.

I love that big purple house. The tiny dog and the large cat were best friends. It is the most beautiful park in the city.