Adjetives

Adjectives are those words that we use to describe or characterize a person, a place or anything else.
They indicate
1. How is?
  1. I want to eat something fresh and sweet.
2. How many are?
  1. You have eight dogs.
Adjective types
1. Demonstratives
2. Possessives
3. Quantities
Its different forms
1. Positive
  1. According to the dictionary
2. Comparative
  1. Comparison between two or more persons
3. Superlative
Comparative
1. Compare persons
2. er in the verb ending
  1. Tall/ alto Taller/ mas alto
3. If the adjective ends in "-y", we change this last letter to "-i" and then add the suffix or ending "-er"
  1. Crazy/Loco Crazier/mas loco
4. If the adjective ends in consonant - vowel - consonant, and the stress of the word is on the last syllable, we double the last consonant and add the suffix "-er".
  1. Big/grande Bigger/mas grande
    1. After the adjective with its respective ending, the word than/that must be used to establish the comparison.
      1. Francisco is fatter than Cristina
5. In some cases the adjective must be preceded by the term more
  1. Camila is more intelligent than Manuela.
6. To indicate that something or someone is less than another thing or person, before the adjective you must add the word less
  1. My car has a less powerful engine than yours
A superlative adjective is what we use to express that something or someone is the most outstanding in some aspect.
1. To construct them, the ending "-est" must be added at the end of the adjective and the article the must be placed before it.
  1. He is the funniest guy of my group.
If a word ends with a consonant followed by "-y", we change the "-y" to "-i" and then add "-est".
1. I was the angriest person.
If the adjective ends with a consonant-vowel-consonant, and the stress is on the last syllable, we double the last consonant and then add the ending "-est".
1. This is the hottest beverage.
We add "most" to long words, i.e., if the word is longer than two syllables and does not end with "-y".
1. These are the most expensive shoes in the store.
Some adjectives do not follow these rules, but change completely as comparatives and superlatives.

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