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Lesson 5 Making Comparisons
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Making Comparisons Adjectives and adverbs can be used to compare people or things.
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Making Comparisons Mt. Rainier is higher than Mt. Hood.
Use the comparative form of an adjective or adverb when you compare a person or thing with one other person or thing. Mt. Rainier is higher than Mt. Hood. Mountain climbing is more dangerous than skydiving.
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Making Comparisons Use the superlative form of an adjective or adverb when you compare someone or something with more than one other person or thing. Mt. Everest is the highest of the three mountains. I think Mt. Fuji is the most beautiful mountain of all.
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Regular Forms of Comparison
Making Comparisons Regular Forms of Comparison For most one-syllable modifiers: add -er to form the comparative add -est to form the superlative
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Making Comparisons
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Making Comparisons
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One Syllable Modifiers
Making Comparisons One Syllable Modifiers Base Form Comparative Superlative Adjective thin brave thinner braver thinnest bravest Adverb slow soon slower sooner slowest soonest
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You can also add -er and -est to some two-syllable adjectives.
Making Comparisons You can also add -er and -est to some two-syllable adjectives. With others, and with two-syllable adverbs, use more and most.
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Two Syllable Modifiers
Making Comparisons Two Syllable Modifiers Base Form Comparative Superlatives Adjective shallow awful shallower more awful shallowest most awful Adverb calmly briskly more calmly more briskly most calmly most briskly
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Making Comparisons With adjectives and adverbs having three or more syllables, use more and most.
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Modifiers with More Than Two Syllables
Making Comparisons Modifiers with More Than Two Syllables Base Form Comparative Superlatives Adjective beautiful dangerous more beautiful more dangerous most beautiful most dangerous Adverb gracefully dangerously more gracefully more dangerously most gracefully most dangerously
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Making Comparisons whitest sand. Use only ONE sign of comparison at a
time. Don’t use more and -er together or most and -est together. INCORRECT: That beach has the most whitest sand. CORRECT: That beach has the
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Irregular Forms of Comparison
Making Comparisons Irregular Forms of Comparison The comparative and superlative forms of some adjectives and adverbs are completely different words. You don’t need to add -er or -est to an irregular comparison.
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Making Comparisons Irregular Modifiers Adjective Adverb Base Form
Comparative Superlatives Adjective good bad better worse best worst Adverb well much little more less most least
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Why It Matters in Writing
Comparative and superlative forms are used to compare and contrast things with each other. Last year I thought math was the most difficult subject. This year I think English is more difficult than math.
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