COMPARATIVES

COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES One-syllable adjectives and two-syllable adjectives ending in –y add –er small nice big warm hot pretty dirty smaller nicer bigger warmer hotter prettier dirtier

COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES We use more with two-syllable adjectives and longer ones  interesting  expensive  dangerous  common  comfortable  boring  more interesting  more expensive  more dangerous  more common  more comfortable  more boring

COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES Some adjectives have irregular forms: good bad far better worse farther/further

COMPARATIVE PATTERNS We often use a phrase with than after the comparison. Fruit is healthier than cakes. After than we use an object pronoun or a personal pronoun with a verb. She is younger than me / than I am. He speaks English better than me / than I do.

COMPARATIVE PATTERNS We use as…as to say that two things are equal or unequal. Our house is as big as yours. It isn’t as cold as yesterday.

COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES Now let’s practise! Use the adjectives given to compare the pictures.

Practice 1 healthy expensive sweet tasty expensive FRUIT CHOCOLATE

Practice 2 difficult easy useful beautiful ENGLISH FRENCH

Practice 3 cold hot big populated popular with tourists SPAIN CANADA

Practice 4 boring useful time-consuming creative good COOKING CLEANING

Practice 5 slow cheap eco-friendly polluting comfortable A BIKE AN SUV

Practice 6 popular dangerous expensive amusing FOOTBALL SNOWBOARDING

Practice 7 cosmopolitan crowded polluted cheap noisy TOKYO GIJON