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Comparatives and Superlatives

• COMPARATIVE vs SUPERLATIVE 🤔 | Types of adjectives | What's the difference? | Learn with examples (Einbetten)
• We use Comparatives and Superlatives to compare two or more nouns and the formation of the comparative and superlative depends on the number of syllables in the adjective.

One-syllable Adjectives

• To form the comparative, we add -er to the end of the adjective.
• To form the superlative, we add -est to the end of the adjective.
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Two-syllable Adjectives ending in -Y

• To form the comparative, we remove the -y and add -ier to the end of the adjective.
• To form the superlative, we remove the -y and add -iest to the end of the adjective.
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Adjectives with Two or more Syllables

• For Adjectives with 2 syllables (that don't end in -y) and higher (3, 4 syllables etc), we use more for comparatives and the most for superlatives.
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Irregular Forms

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• Examples
• I am a better tennis player than you but Marcelo is the best.
• Steve is a worse liar than me but Adrian is the worst.