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How many types of Comparison are there?

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Forming regular Comparatives and Superlatives

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Exceptions

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Exercise Index

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... AS ... AS ...

How many types of Comparison are there?How many types of Comparison are there?

There are 3 types of Comparison:•Equal form•Comparative•Superlative

Usage:- Equal form is used to compare two things to point out whether they have the same quality of some feature.

- Comparative is used to compare two things to point out the differences between them.

- Superlative is used to compare more than two things.


Click on the sentences which are of equal form

CAN YOU RECOGNIZE?

-Who sings most beautifully in your class?-My brother is studying harder than ever for his coming test.

-She’s not the most intelligent person in her family.

-Mary is as tall as Jane.

-Is Tokyo bigger or smaller than Ho Chi Minh city?

-They run as fast as pigs.


Click on the sentences which use comparatives

CAN YOU RECOGNIZE?







Click on the sentences which use superlatives

CAN YOU RECOGNIZE?






... AS ... AS ...... AS ... AS ...

… as/so + adj/adv + as + …

Notice:

- He is as tall as me correct

- He is as tall as I am correct

- He is as tall as I incorrect

- They drive as carefully as us correct

- They drive as carefully as we do correct

- They drive as carefully as we incorrect

... AS ... AS ...... AS ... AS ...

… number of times + as + adj/adv + as + …

Notice:- We CAN’T use “SO” instead of “AS” in this case

Examples:

Mary’s books are twice as many as mine.

My sister can run five times as fast as a turtle.

Forming regular Comparatives and SuperlativesForming regular Comparatives and Superlatives

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Only one syllable.

Ex: light, near, small, short, etc

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Only one syllable, ending in E

Ex: cute, fine, wide, etc.

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Two syllables, ending in Y.

Ex: happy, silly, lonely, etc.

How would you form comparatives and superlatives from these kinds of adjectives

and adverbs?

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Two syllables or more, not ending in Y.

Ex: modern, interesting, beautiful

COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIVE

Only one syllable, ending in E

Ex: wide, fine, cuteAdd -R: wider, finer,

cuterAdd -ST: widest, finest,

cutest

Only one syllable, with one vowel and one consonant at the end

Ex: hot, big, fat

Double the consonant, and add -

ER: hotter, bigger, fatter

Double the consonant, and add -EST: hottest,

biggest, fattest

Only one syllable, with more than one vowel or more than one consonant at the end

Ex: light, neat, fast

Add -ER: lighter, neater, faster

Add -EST: lightest, neatest, fastest

Two syllables, ending in Y

Ex: happy, silly, lonely

Change Y to I, then add -ER: happier,

sillier, lonelier

Change Y to I, then add -EST: happiest,

silliest, loneliest

Two syllables or more, not ending in Y

Ex: modern, interesting, beautiful

Use MORE: more modern, more

interesting, more beautiful

Use MOST: most modern, most

interesting, most beautiful

Forming regular Comparatives and SuperlativesForming regular Comparatives and Superlatives

ExceptionsExceptionsgood better best

bad / ill worse worst

little (amount) less least

little (size) smaller smallest

much / many more most

far (place + time) further furthest

far (place) farther farthest

late (time) later latest

late (order) latter last

near (place) nearer nearest

near (order) - next

old (people and things) older oldest

old (people) elder eldest

Exercise IndexExercise Index

•Exercise 1

•Exercise 2

•Exercise 3

•Exercise 4

•Comparison Exercises index page

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