comparative and superlative adjectives

CLASS SURVEY

1. How do you get to school?

2. How long does it take you?

3. Do you have a pleasant journey?

ANSWERS

• By train

• By car

• By bus

• By motorbike

• By bike

• On foot

• Hitchhiking

It takes me:

• 20 minutes

• Half an hour

• More than 40 minutes

if I get stuck in a

traffic jam

RESULTS

• _________ is the fastest.

• _________ is the slowest.

• ________ uses the most comfortable form of transport.

• ________ uses the least enviromentally friendly form of transport.

• _______ has the most pleasant journey.

• _______ has the most unpleasant journey.

Which is the.... ....

• Most Enviromentally friendly

• Most Convenient

• Most Comfortable

• Fastest

• Cheapest

• Slowest

COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES

• Comparatives are adjectives and adverbs that end in –er (e.g. bigger, richer, faster)

• Superlatives are adjectives and adverbs that end in –est (e.g. biggest, richest, fastest)

RULES OF THUMB 1. In general with one syllable adjectives we add

–er or –est:

He drove faster this morning.

It is a lot hotter in Indian that in the UK.

2. Adjectives with two syllables: ending in: -y, we add + -ier or + -iest

happy, pretty, busy, sunny, lucky

A car is heavy, a truck is heavier, but a train is the

heaviest.

TO BE REMEMBERED...

3. With one syllable adjectives with the spelling consonant + single vowel + consonant: double the final consonant:

Fat/ fatter /the fattest

Big/ bigger / the biggest

sad / sadder / saddest

4. With adjectives that are also past participles we use MORE/THE MOST:

burnt, drunk, forced, lost, spoiled, tired, torn

I’m getting more and more tired.

LONG ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS 5. We use more and most with long adjectives and adverbs: It was the most expensive wine in the shop. She talks more energetically when she’s in with people she knows. A park bench is comfortable, a restaurant chair is more comfortable, but a sofa is the most comfortable

IRREGULAR COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES

Irregular Adjectives:

Good / better/ the best

Bad / worse / the worst

Far / further/ the furthest

Irregular Adverbs

Badly / worse / the worst

Far / further / the furthest

Well / better/ the best

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