COMPARATIVES

COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES One-syllable adjectives and two-syllable adjectives ending in –y add –er small nice big warm hot pretty dirty smaller nicer bigger warmer hotter prettier dirtier

COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES We use more with two-syllable adjectives and longer ones more interesting more expensive more dangerous more common more comfortable more boring interesting expensive dangerous common comfortable boring

COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES Some adjectives have irregular forms: good bad far better worse farther/further

COMPARATIVE PATTERNS We use as…as to say that two things are equal or unequal. Our house is as big as yours. It isn’t as cold as yesterday. We often use a phrase with than after the comparison. Fruit is healthier than cakes. After than we use an object pronoun or a personal pronoun with a verb. She is younger than me / than I am He speaks English better than me / than I do.

COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES Now let’s practise! Use the adjectives given to compare the pictures.

Practice 1 FRUIT healthy expensive sweet tasty CHOCOLATE

Practice 2 ENGLISH FRENCH difficult easy useful beautiful

Practice 3 SPAIN cold hot big populated popular with tourists CANADA

Practice 4 COOKING CLEANING boring useful time-consuming creative good

Practice 5 A BIKE AN SUV slow cheap eco-friendly polluting comfortable

Practice 6 SNOWBOARDING FOOTBALL popular dangerous expensive amusing

Practice 7 GIJON cosmopolitan crowded polluted cheap noisy TOKYO