learn how to use the comparative and the superlative

1. Elaborado por:
Sandrine Lafontant Diaz
Educación a Distancia

2. In today’s lesson, we will review how to make the
comparatives and the superlatives.
Let’s remember that we have to use the adjectives to be
able to compare different things, different people or
differents animals.

3. The comparative is a way to describe nouns with each other.
We can compare two things using different adjectives. For
example; If you want to compare your brother to your best friend
using the adjective TALL = My brother is taller than my best friend.
Subject + verb + COMPARATIVE ADJECTIVE + THAN + Complements
Comparative

4. Syllables Structure Examples
1 add -er at the
end of the
adjective
nice--- nicer
She is nicer than my sister, i like
her.
2 add -er at the
end of the
adjective
pretty --- prettier
My grandmother is prettier than
my aunt.
3+ more + adjective
+ than
Beautiful --- more beautiful than
I am more beautiful than my
stepmom.

5. We use the superlative when we want to show that one
“noun” (thing, person, animal or situation) is better or worse than
another.
handsome
Ex: He is the most handome boy in the classroom.
Boy CLASSROOM
Subject + verb + THE + SUPERLATIVE ADJECTIVE + Complements
Superlative

6. Syllables Structure Examples
1 The + add - est at the
end of the adjective
smart ---- the smartest
She is the smartest girl in
the classroom
2 The + add - est at the
end of the adjective
pretty --- the prettiest
It is the prettiest flower in
the garden.
3+ The + most + adjective beautiful --- my mother is
the most beautiful of all.

7. Some adjectives have a specific change and others do not
change at all because they are irregular adjectives. We have to
be able to recognise the irregular verb and the verbs that suffer
a change during the transformation from an adjective to a
comparative.
Exceptions to the rule and changes

8. Adjective Changes that
happens
Examples
Adjective that end
with “y”
the “y” changes into “i” pretty : prettier ---- prettiest
angry : angier ---- angiest
lazy : lazier ----- laziest
Adjective that have
the following
structure consonant,
vowel, consonant
we double the
consonant of the
adjective -- dd, tt, gg
big : bigger --- biggest
sad: sadder ---- saddest
thin : thinner ---- thinnest
irregular adjectives no rules for the
irregular adjectives
bad: worse than ---- the worst
good : better than ----- the best
little : less than ------ the least
much : more than ----- the most

9. Créditos
Tecnológico nacional de México
Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de
Cuautitlán Izcalli
Coordinación del Área de
Educación a Distancia