MULTIVERSIDAD LATINOAMERICANA CAMPUS CELAYA BACHILLERATO PROF. SALVADOR VARGAS INGLES II COMPARISONS Usage of comparatives.

WHAT FIRST?  Adjectives  These are words that help us to describe the subject we are referring to.

SOME EXAMPLES  My car is blue.  These table is long.  Ray Bans are expensive.  Tulips are beautiful.  Sloths are slow. The bold words are characteristics of my subject on each sentence.

 Adjectives are divided in SHORT adjectives and LONG adjectives.  This division is done according the adjective’s syllables.  One syllable, my adjective is short. More than one, my adjective is long.

THAN  When using comparatives, and only comparatives, the word THAN is needed.  This word allows us to link our comparison in a sentence.  Subject 1 + to be + COMPARATIVE + THAN + Subject 2.

COMPARATIVES  A comparative adjective is form in two ways, depending if is LONG or SHORT.  If is it LONG, the word MORE is needed before our adjective. In/te/res/ting. Books are MORE INTERESTING than TVs.

 If my adjective is SHORT, a suffix is needed, in this case -er. Young Julia is YOUNGER than Lucy.

 There are some short adjectives that have an extra slightly modification.  Big  Bigger  Wet  Wetter  Hot  Hotter  Thin  Thinner  Small  Smaller  New  Newer When the adjective ends in VOWEL – CONSONANT, the consonant must be repeated and followed by my suffix. This rule does not apply when my consonant is already repeated, or when my consonant is W.

EXCEPTIONS  There are three exceptions for the comparatives and they are:  Good  Better Vegetables are better than junk food.  Bad  Worse Steal is worse than lie.  Far  Farther Cozumel is farther than Mexico City.  Their comparative form is unique for each of them and it does not have a specific rule. They are like they are.