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Comparative adjective file
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- 1Comparative adjectiveThis file will show: the description, grammatical rules, form of formation, examples, etc; of comparative adjectives
- 2What is the comparative adjective?It is used to compare or differentiate between 2 or more things or people.
- 3How to form a comparative adjective?To form a comparative adjective, we add "-er" as the ending of the adjective.
If the adjective ends in a consonant - vowel - consonant, the last consonant is doubled and we add "-er".
- 4What are they grammar rules?There are two ways to form a comparative adjective: short adjectives have an "-er" at the end, and long adjectives use the word "more."
- 5What is its structure?its structure is: Subject + verb + adjective in comparative degree + "that" + object
- 6inferiorityTo build this comparison we can use the conjunctions -not as…as- or _less…than-.
- 7EqualityTo form sentences comparing objects of equality, we must use -as … as- keeping the adjective also in its simple form.
- 8Irregular Comparative Adjectivesthere are three very common English adjectives that are irregular and do not add -er- or -more- but change.
Examples:
good-better
bad-worse
far-farther / further - 9tallerfunnier
- 10saddersmaller
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- Flashcards on Comparative adjective file, created by Raul José David Coc Osorio on 21/02/2022.
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