Adjetivos Superlativos y Comparativos

1. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL EXPERIMENTAL FRANCISCO DE MIRANDA ÁREA CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACIÓN MENCIÓN INGLÉS By KARLA RUELA

2. Examples: Cristiano is taller than Messi. Messi is tall, but Cristiano is taller. … .are used to compare two things. You can use sentences with “ than ” , or you can use a conjunction like “ but ” .

3. Examples: Cristiano is the tallest of the team. Caka is tall, and Messi is taller, but Cristiano is the tallest … used to compare more than two things. Superlative sentences usually use “ the ”, because there is only one superlative.

4. Examples: He is the best football player in the team. This is the most expensive city I've visited. Examples: Ronaldinho is thinner than Kaka. It's more expensive to travel by train than by bus. We use comparative to compare two things. We use superlative to compare one thing with the rest of the group it belongs to.

5. Examples: Britney is cut er than Shakira. Shakira is cute but Britney is the cut est . Argentina is bigg er than Mexico Mexico is the bigg est country. Emilio Lovera is happ ier than……………….. Emilio Lovera is the Happ iest.

6. Examples: Football is more interesting than Tennis. Football is the most interesting sport.

7. Examples: Magallanes team is better than Leones team. Magallanes is the best baseball team. good - better - the best bad - worse - the worst far - further - the furthest Little Less, lesser Least

8. His strongest point is his ambition. He's as tall as me. Jim's car is not as fast as mine. Paris Hilton is much richer than I am. My mother's hair is slightly longer than mine. We do not use the with the superlative if there is a possessive. We use as + adjective + as to say that two things are equal in some way or not a s to say that two things are not equal in some way. We can modify comparative with much, a lot, far, a little, a bit, slightly .

9. Hispanos Grill is by far the best restaurant in Coro. These exams are getting worse and worse every year. She gets more and more beautiful every time I see her. We can modify superlative with by far, easily and nearly We can repeat comparative to say that something is changing

10. 1. Italy won their fourth world crown in Germany, beating France on penalties in Berlin. (Fifa world cup 2006) 2. Brazil became champions for the fifth time as top scorer Ronaldo scoring both goals in the Final against Germany. (Fifa world cup Korea Japan 2002) 3. France enjoyed an unforgettable summer as its footballers finally tasted FIFA World Cup glory, Zinedine Zidane leading Les Bleus to victory over Brazil in the Final. (Fifa world cup 1998)

11. It is bigger than a baseball. It is as round as the moon. It is as orange as a carrot. It is as hard as a melon. It is not as sweet as fruit. Answer: A pumpkin .