1. THE COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES
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Yasmin Aleem Ghori
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2. The comparison is used when we compare two people or things.
The easiest rule is: add the ending –er to one-syllable words and to two syllable words ending in –y, e.g.
Fast – faster
Easy – easier
Big - bigger

3. Fast
Faster

4. Big
Bigger

5. Superlative
The superlative of a word is used to compare three or more things/people and to pick out one thing/person as more “X” than all the others.

6. Remember: Adjectives are compared like this: big – bigger – biggest
tall – taller – tallest
beautiful – more beautiful– most beautiful

7. THE BIGGEST
BIGGER
BIG

8. tall
taller
tallest

9. Long adjectives:
beautiful – more beautiful- most beautiful