1. Regular Comparatives in adjectives Comparatives are used to compare people, places, things or actions. “He's taller than them” “ They are shorter than him” It always goes “than” after the comparative:

2. RULES RULE 1. One syllable adjectives add -ER. “Travelling by bus is cheaper than travelling by plane”

3. RULES RULE 2. If the adjective finishes in a consonant+vowel + consonant, double final consonant+ -ER “Australia is bigger than Europe”

4. RULES RULE 3. One or Two-syllable adj. ending in consonant+“y”=i “ Eating fruit is healthier than eating meat ”

5. RULES RULE 4. 2 Syllable adjectives not ending in -y use “more”. “Working is more boring than playing games”

6. RULES RULE 5. Two or more syllable adjectives use “MORE” before the adjective: “ Travelling by plane is more expensive than travelling by bus ”

7. Rules for regular comparatives ADJECTIVECOMPARATIVE RULE 1.-ONE SYLLABLE ADJECTIVE CHEAP CHEAP-ER RULE 2.- ONE SYLLABLE ADJ WITH A CONSONANT-VOWEL- CONSONANT PATTERN (CVC) EXCEPT Y/W THIN-HOT-BIG SLOW GREY THIN-NER, HOT-TER, BIG-GER SLOW-ER, GREY-ER RULE 3.- 2 SYLLABLE ADJECTIVES ENDING IN -Y= I+EST HEALTHY EASY HAPPY PRETTY HEALTH-IER, EAS-IER, HAPP-IER, PRETT-IER RULE 4.-2 SYLLABLE ADJ NOT ENDING IN Y- BORINGMORE BORING RULE 5.- TWO OR MORE SYLLABLES ADJ.=MOST EXPENSIVEMORE EXPENSIVE

8. ADJECTIVECOMPARATIVE RULE 1 FASTFASTER TALLTALLER COLDCOLDER RULE 2 SADSADDER HOTHOTTER FATFATTER BIGBIGGER RULE 3 NOISYNOISIER

9. ADJECTIVECOMPARATIVE PRETTYPRETTIER BUSYBUSIER FUNNYFUNNIER FRIENDLYFRIENDLIER HEALTHYHEALTHIER RULE 5 BEAUTIFULMORE BEAUTIFUL EXPENSIVEMORE EXPENSIVE INTERESTINGMORE INTERESTING

10. Irregular comparatives in adjectives ” “Helen speaks French better than Philip” “Sally drives worse than Anna. “My house is further from school than yours” “She's more stressed than you” “I'm more tired than him” “John is more bored than her” IRREGULA R GOODBETTER BADWORSE FARFURTHER TIREDMORE TIRED STRESSEDMORE STRESSED

11. Regular-Irregular comparatives in adverbs ADVERB IRREGULAR COMPARATIVE HARD HARDER WELL BETTER BADLY WORSE MUCHMORE MANYMORE LITTLELESS ADVERB REGULAR COMPARATIVE QUICKLY MORE QUICKLY SLOWLY MORE SLOWLY

12. Comparative Comparativo de inferioridad 3.-Less +adj or adverb eg. I'm less relaxed this year than I was last year. (Estoy menos relajado este año que el año pasado) Comparativo de Igualdad 4.- (Not) as+adjective/adverb+as. eg. She doesn't drive as fast as her brother””Mario is as tall as her”

13. Comparative -After comparative+than or as.....as we use an object pronoun (me, her,him,etc) or a subject pronoun+auxiliary verb. Eg. ”My brother's taller than me” My brother's taller than I am” “He's not as intelligent as her” “He's not as intelligent as she is”