COMPARATIVES

Long and short adjectives

SHORT ADJECTIVES

# We add – er

Small smaller

Big bigger

Long longer

Bariloche is colder than Mercedes.

But remember:

Good better

Bad worse

CDs are better than cassettes.

LONG ADJECTIVES

We add: more ------- than

A car is more expensive than a bicycle.

Big

The elephant is bigger than the car.

Small

The mouse is smaller than the cat.

Strong

The bear is stronger than the monkey.

Slow

The snail is slower than the tortoise.

Old

Mirtha Legrand is older than Natalia Oreiro.

Good

Messi is better than Tabaré Viudez

Difficult

Chinese is more difficult than English.

Exciting

Holidays are more exciting than school

Expensive

London is more expensive than Buenos Aires.