COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE

COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE

1. COMPARATIVE

   • AFFIRMATIVE
   • Comparative adjectives are used to compare a certain characteristic or quality between two or more things, animals or people.
     • The mouse is smaller than the owl.

2. SUPERLATIVE

   • STRUCTURE
     • In one-syllable adjectives, the final ending -er is usually added in comparatives.
       • Taller
     • As for the superlatives, the article the is added before the adjective and the ending -est behind it.
       • The tallest
     • EXCEPTIONS
       • If the adjective ends in -e, just add -r
         • Wider
         • In words ending in consonant + vowel + consonant, the last consonant is doubled and -ER is added
           • Bigger
           • Two-syllable adjectives to build the comparative, the particle more is mostly added in front without altering the adjective, although in some cases the ending -er can also be added
             • More clever
             • Cleverer
       • If the adjective ends in -e, just add -st
         • The widest
         • In words ending in consonant + vowel + consonant, the last consonant is doubled and -EST is added
           • The biggest
           • The particle the most is added in front without altering the adjective, or the article the in front of the adjective and the ending -est in the back can be added.
             • The most clever
             • The cleverest
   • Superlative adjectives express the maximum degree of a characteristic of an element with respect to others of its same group or condition.
     • The fastest car is the blue one.

3. Adjectives that can vary in degree or intensity have comparative and superlative forms.