What’s the difference between adjectives and adverbs? Rules Example  Adjectives can only describe nouns.  Adverbs can describe verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.  With verbs of senses we can only use adjectives  She’s a beautiful dancer.  She dances beautifully.  She’s extremely beautiful.  She dances really beautifully.  It tastes horrible  She looks beautiful.  It sounds awful. |

Beautiful Big Difficult Sexy Clean Easy Ugly Fat

Comparative adjectives Tall Old Nice Wide Big Fit Popular Careful Friendly Busy Good Far  Taller  Older  Nicer  Wider  Bigger  Fitter  More popular  More careful  Friendlier  Busier  Better  Farther One syllable adjectives One syllable adjectives ending in E One syllable adjectives ending in consonant vowel consonant Two or more syllable adjectives ending in Y Two or more syllable adjectives Irregular adjectives + er + r Double last consonant + er + more Change Y for ier Complete change

 Exceptions   1) These one-syllable adj. never take er / est, they take more / the most  Fun / Real / Right / Wrong / Bored / Pleased   She’s more fun than him.  He’s the most bored in class.   2) These adj. can take either er / est or more / the most  Quiet / Simple / Narrow / Clever / Common   It’s the simplest solution.  It’s the most simple answer.

The Everest is higher than the Aconcagua. The Aconcagua is higher than the Huascaran. The Everest is higher than the Huascaran. 6962m 6748m 8848m The Everest is higher than the Huascaran. a lot (very)much far The Aconcagua is higher than the Huascaran a little Slightly A bit BIG DIFFERENCE SMALL DIFFERENCE

Superlative adjectives Tall Old Nice Wide Big Fit Popular Careful Friendly Busy Good Far  The tallest  The oldest  The nicest  The widest  The biggest  The fittest  The most popular  The most careful  The friendliest  The busiest  The best  The farthest One syllable adjectives One syllable adjectives ending in E One syllable adjectives ending in consonant vowel consonant Two or more syllable adjectives ending in Y Two or more syllable adjectives Irregular adjectives + est + st Double last consonant + est + the most Change Y for iest Complete change

8848m The Everest is the highest mountain in the world. The chinese man is the tallest man on earth. The little guy is the shortest person in the world. The Everest is the highest mountain in the world. 6962m 6748m by far The Aconcagua is the highest mountain in South America.just about

The Huascaran is as tall as the Alpamayo. The Huascaran is not as tall as the Aconcagua. The huascaran is nearly as tall as the Aconcagua. The huascaran is not nearly as tall as the Everest. The same Small difference Big difference

 Melissa is 1.75 metres tall, but Juan is 2.5 metres tall.  Juan is______________melissa. Complete with the same idea  Melissa is much more beautiful than anyone in this world.  Melissa is_______________ beautiful girl in this world.  Carla and Jose are very short. Carla is only 2 cm taller.  Jose is_________________Carla.  Juana is 1.60 and Mario is 1.60 too. They are very short  Juana is_____________ Mario.  Joanne is extremelly beautiful… Maria is okish.  Maria is not________________Joanne.  Martin weights 99 kilos, nobody in the class weights that much.  Martin____________________ in the class.