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Comparative Adjectives Guide

This document provides information about comparative adjectives in English. It discusses how to form comparatives for short adjectives with one syllable by adding "-er" and long adjectives with more than one syllable by adding "more". It also lists irregular forms such as "good" becoming "better" and "bad" becoming "worse". The document then provides exercises for writing comparative sentences and the opposites of comparative adjectives.

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Comparative Adjectives Guide

This document provides information about comparative adjectives in English. It discusses how to form comparatives for short adjectives with one syllable by adding "-er" and long adjectives with more than one syllable by adding "more". It also lists irregular forms such as "good" becoming "better" and "bad" becoming "worse". The document then provides exercises for writing comparative sentences and the opposites of comparative adjectives.

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COMPARATIVES ADJECTIVES

Santiago Andres Mendez de la Peña


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TEACHER
MARIA CAMILA MOTTA

ENGLISH

TECNOLOGO EN AUTOMATIZACION INDUSTRIAL


NEIVA - HUILA
2020
Long adjectives (2, 3, 4 syllables)

Short adjectives (1 syllable)  -er more ...

Old  Older Slow  Slower Dangerous  More Dangerous


Warm  Warmer Tall  Expensive  More expensive
Taller
Irregular comparative
Big  Bigger Hot  Hotter
Heavy  Heavier Happy  forms: Good  Better
Happier
Far 

Further
Bad  Worse Little  Less

Write the comparative form: Write the opposite:


New  Newer Younger  Young
Long  Longer Cleaner  Clean

Nice  Nicer Darker  Dark

Big  Bigger More boring  Boring

Good  Better Hotter  Hot

Fat  Fater Happier  Happy

Modern  More modern Easier  Easy

Friendly  Frienlier Smaller  Small

Famous  More famous Cheaper  Cheap


Write comparative sentences using the adjectives in brackets.

1. My house is (big) bigger than yours.


2. This flower is (beautiful) more beautiful than that one.
3. A holiday by the sea is (good) better than a holiday in the mountains.
4. The weather this summer is even (bad) worse than last summer.
5. I think mathematics is (difficult) more difficult than English.

Complete the sentences. Use the comparative.


1. Joe’s car isn’t very fast. He wants a faster one.
2. My job isn’t very interesting. I want to do something more interesting.
3. The weather isn’t very warm today. Yesterday it was warmer.
4. People aren´t very polite today. In the past they were politer.
5. This sofa isn’t very comfortable. That one is more comfortable.
6. This coat is nice, but i think the other one is nicer.

Write three sentences using comparative adjectives.

1. My house is bigger than yours.


2. The Pacific Ocean is deeper than the Arctic Ocean.
3. The Earth is larger than the moon.

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