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Comparatives and superlatives

Comparatives in English

clean → cleaner  cold → colder  small → smaller  young → younger  tall → taller

Adjetivos de una sílaba

Examples

• Cristina is younger than Joaquín
• London is colder than Valencia

Hay que tener en cuenta que:

• Normalmente cuando la palabra termina en consonante, duplicamos la consonante.

big → bigger hot → hotter thin → thinner

• Si el adjetivo termina en y la cambiamos a la letra i. dry → drier

Eso no es todo

Hay algunas excepciones

Aunque estos adjetivos son monosílabos, no se añade la terminación -er

• fun → more/less fun
• real → more/less real
• wrong → more/less wrong

Comparatives in English

Adjectives with two syllables

Si los adjetivos tienen dos o más sílabas, normalmente usamos more adjective than less adjective than

Examples: Borja is more bored than Joel. Lucas is less careful than Juan.

Irregular comparative forms

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Comparative of equality

• as ... as
• not as ... as

Examples - Juan is as tall as Jaime. - Cristina is as bright as Carmen. - San Francisco is no as noisy as New York. - A car is not as comfortable as a plane.

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Superlative

Palabras de una sílaba

• the ____-est

Examples: The Amazon River is the widest river in the world. Alex is the youngest member of his family.

Superlative

- A las palabras que terminan en consonante se les duplica la consonante.

• mad > maddest
• big > biggest
• slim > slimmest
• hip > hippest
• fat > fattest
• wet > wettest

Example: Are hippos the biggest animals?

Superlative

Adjetivos de una o dos sílabas que terminan en "y"

• dry > driest
• ugly > ugliest
• easy > easiest
• happy > happiest
• lucky > luckiest
• windy > windiest

Superlative

Adjetivos de dos o más sílabas

Usually we use

- the most + adjective Example: - The most difficult subject... - Puma trainers are not the most expensive trainers.

With some 2-syllable adjectives, we can use "-est" OR "most": quiet → the quietest/most quiet clever → the cleverest/most clever narrow → the narrowest/most narrow simple → the simplest/most simple

but...

Irregular superlative forms

Quiz time!

Write down your answers on a piece of paper

For more practice

Please do the exercises on your worksheet

WELL DONE!!

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