Comparative and Superlative Adjectives

Comparative and Superlative Adjectives

1. Comparative adjectives: We use to show change or make comparisons between two or more things, animals or people.

   • Example
     • I'm feeling happier now.
     • This car is certainly better
     • We need a bigger garden
   • We use the letters -er together with the adjective
     • Or than when we want to compare one thing with another
       • Example
         • The mouse is smaller than the owl
         • Russia is a bigger country than Argentina
   • Also, when we want to describe how something or someone changes we can use two comparatives
     • Finally, We often use the with comparative adjectives to show that one thing depends on another

2. Superlative adjectives: Express the maximum degree of a characteristic of an element with respect to others of the same group

   • Three or more things
   • There are two ways to form a superlative adjective
     • Short adjectives: add -est
       • Example
         • old → the oldest
         • big → the biggest
         • old → the oldest
     • Long adjectives: use "most"
       • Example
         • modern → the most modern
         • expensive → the most expensive
     • Exception: There are some irregular adjectives that change
       • far → the farthest
       • bad → the worst
       • good → the best