Comparatives and Superlatives

Comparatives andsuperlatives

CELEX | Advanced 4, Class 5 | Dámaris Cornish Sánchez

Remember!!Adjectives are words that tell us information about the subject of a sentence

What kind of words do we use to compare?

Adjectives are some of the words we use the most when we want to compare things, persons or places between each other.

Short and long adjectives

To make a short adjective comparative, we generally ad (-er) at the end. For example: happy -> happi(er).With long adjectives, we ad (more). This happens with: (more) beautiful

To create a superlative we put (-est) at the end of a short adjective or (the most) before a long one.For example:happy -> happi(est)beautiful -> (the most) beautiful

by far | a lot | a little | more (than) | easily | rather (than) | the + [comp. adj], the + [comp. adj.]

Appart from adjectives, there are other constructions that also help us to make comparisons

SOURCES

JETSTREAM ADVANCEDTEACHER'S GUIDE

https://www.ef.com/wwen/english-resources/english-grammar/comparative-and-superlative/

Thank you for your attention!

Time to practice...

Now, open your Student's Book on page 74 and answer the Grammar Exercises 1 and 2 to demonstrate your mastery of the topic.Good luck!