Zusammenfassung der Ressource
HAVE YOU USED
THE
COMPARATIVE
AND
SUPERLATIVE
ADJECTIVE?
- COMPARATIVE
- Used when comparing two things.
- The two basic ways to compare are using: AS or THAN.
- EXAMPLES
- She´s twice as old as her sister.
Russian is not quite as difficult as
chinese. Our car is bigger than your car.
- Syllable adjectives: add- ER to the adjective
- EXAMPLE
- Tall - Taller Neat - Neater
- Syllable adjectives : ending in - y change the y to IER
- EXAMPLE
- Happy - Happier Easy - Easier
- Other 2-syllable adjective: use MORE with the
unchanged adjective
- EXAMPLE
- The shops are always more crowded just before
christmas
- Adjectives with 3 or more syllables: use MORE with the unchanged
adjective
- EXAMPLE
- Russian gramar is more difficult tan English grammar
- SUPERLATIVE
- Talk about one thing only and how it is the best , worst...etc. You do not compare two things. The
following guidelines apply to the superlative
- Syllable adjectives: add - EST to the adjective (plus the)
- EXAMPLE
- Cold - Coldest Deep - Deepest
- If the Word ends: consonant-vowel-consonant, then the last consonant is usally doubled in the superlative
- EXAMPLE
- Big- Biggest Fat- Fattest
- Syllable adjectives ending in Y : change y to IEST
(PLUS THE)
- EXAMPLE
- Lucky - Luckiest
- Do not confuse adjectives and adverbs
- Other 2- syllables adjectives: use THE MOST with the unchanged adjective
- EXAMPLE
- Albert Einstein was the most intelligent person in history