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Prepared by Mohd Kamal Bin Abd Aziz English Proficiency for Academic Purposes Lecturer School of Human Sciences

 We use comparative adjectives when talking about 2 things (not 3 or 10 or 1,000,000 things, only 2 things).  Often, the comparative adjective is followed by "than".  Look at these examples:  John is 1m80. He is tall. But Chris is 1m85. He is taller than John.  America is big. But Russia is bigger.  I want to have a more powerful computer.  Is French more difficult than English?

 Although we use comparative adjectives when talking about two things (not three or more things), in fact one or both of the things may be a group of things.Mt Everest is higher than all other mountains.  Here, we are talking about hundreds of mountains, but we are still comparing one thing (Mt Everest) to one other thing (all other mountains).

 There are two ways to make or form a comparative adjective:  short adjectives: add "-er"  long adjectives: use "more"

Long adjectives 2-syllable adjectives not ending in -y modern, pleasant all adjectives of 3 or more syllables expensive, intellectual Normal rule: use "more"modern → more modern expensive → more expensive

With some 2-syllable adjectives, we can use '- er' or 'more':quiet → quieter/more quiet  clever → cleverer/more clever  narrow → narrower/more narrow  simple → simpler/more simple

The following adjectives have irregular forms:  good → better  well (healthy) → better  bad → worse  far → farther/further

 A superlative adjective expresses the extreme or highest degree of a quality.  We use a superlative adjective to describe the extreme quality of one thing in a group of things.

 In the example below, "biggest" is the superlative form of the adjective "big": A B C A is the biggest.

 As with comparative adjectives, there are two ways to form a superlative adjective:  short adjectives: add "-est"  long adjectives: use "most"  We also usually add 'the' at the beginning.

Short adjectives 1-syllable adjectivesold, fast 2-syllable adjectives ending in -yhappy, easy Normal rule: add "-est"old → the oldest Variation: if the adjective ends in -e, just add -stlate → the latest Variation: if the adjective ends in consonant, vowel, consonant, double the last consonant big → the biggest Variation: if the adjective ends in -y, change the y to ihappy → the happiest

Long adjectives 2-syllable adjectives not ending in -y modern, pleasant all adjectives of 3 or more syllables expensive, intellectual Normal rule: use "most"modern → the most modern expensive → the most expensive

With some 2-syllable adjectives, we can use '- est' or 'most':quiet → the quietest/most quiet  clever → the cleverest/most clever  narrow → the narrowest/most narrow  simple → the simplest/most simple

The following adjectives have irregular forms:  good → the best  bad → the worst  far → the furthest

 We use a superlative adjective to describe one thing in a group of three or more things. Look at these examples:  John is 1m75. David is 1m80. Chris is 1m85. Chris is the tallest.  Canada, China and Russia are big countries. But Russia is the biggest.  Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world.