Copy - Comparatives and superlatives

Comparatives and superlatives

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

Examples

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

Adjetivos de una sílaba

Comparatives in English

• 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

Hay que tener en cuenta que:

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

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

Hay algunas excepciones

Eso no es todo

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

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

Adjectives with two syllables

Comparatives in English

Irregular comparative forms

Let's see what you know!

For more practice

Please do the exercises on your worksheet

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.

• as ... as
• not as ... as

Comparative of equality

Write down your answers on a piece of paper

Quiz time!

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

• the ____-est

Palabras de una sílaba

Superlative

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

Example: Are hippos the biggest animals?

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

Superlative

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

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

Superlative

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

Usually we use

but...

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

Adjetivos de dos o más sílabas

Superlative

Irregular superlative forms

Write down your answers on a piece of paper

Quiz time!

For more practice

Please do the exercises on your worksheet

See you next week

WELL DONE!!