Comparatives and Superlatives

1. Bienvenido a un tema mas de tu curso de nivel 7
En esta ocasión veremos un tema que si no es nuevo es de suma importancia retomar ya que es
esencial conocer todo tipo de estructuras que ayudaran a nuestro inglés a ser un poco más
profesional cada día. El nuevo tema nos permitira realizar comparaciones de cualquier indole y
támbien a elegir al mejor dentro de un grupo.
Vamos a estudiar el siguiete tema, esperamos que la información te sea de ayuda
Adjectives and Adverbs of mannner
Comparatives and Superlatives

2. Adjectives /Adverbs of manner
• Adjectives describe nouns
• Adverbs of manner describe how something happens
We form most adverbs of manner by adding -ly to the adjective
quiet-quietly careful – carefully
Adjectives ending in a consonant + y, drop the –y and take -ily
easy – easily
Adjectives ending in –le, drop the –e and take –y
terrible-terribly
Irregular Adverbs
good-well
fast-fast
hard-hard
late-late
early-early

3. Comparisons
The comparative form
• Of one-syllable adjectives and adverbs and of two-syllable adjectives ending in –y change the –y to –i , while
those ending in -e take only –r
tall-taller near-nearer happy-happier late-later
• Of most adjectives and adverbs with two or more syllables is formed with more
Beautiful- more beautiful slowly- more slowly
• Of adjectives or adverbs is followed by than when we compare two people, animals, things, ideas or
situations
Peter is taller than James
Living with your family can be easier than living on your own

4. The superlative form
• of one syllable adjectives and adverbs and two-syllable adjectives ending in -y is formed by adding -est.
(Adjectives ending in -y change the -y to -i, while those ending in -etake only -st.)
tall-tallest happy- happiest near-nearest late-latest
• of most adjectives and adverbs with two or more syllables is formed with most.
beautiful-most beautiful slowly-most slowly
• of adjectives or adverbs is used with the...(of/in) when we compare one person, animal, thing, idea or
situation with several of the same kind
That's the most ridiculous idea I've ever heard
Peter is the tallest boy in his class

5. Irregular Forms
Irregular Forms
Positive Comparative Superlative
good/well
bad/badly
much/many
little
far
better
worse
more
less
farther/further
best
worst
most
least
farthest/furthest
Note:
• Some two-syllable adjectives from comparative and superlative forms of both ways
clever-cleverer /more clever -cleverest / most clever
common - commoner /more common - commonest /most common
narrow - narrower /more narrow-narrowest /most narrow
simple -simplier / more simple - simpliest /most simple
• Coparatives can be graded by using the words far, much, a lot, a little, a bit, slightly, etc
This car is much more expensive than the one I bought
The house we live in now is slightly bigger than the one we lived in before

6. Other forms of comparison
• As + adjective/adverb + as (to show similarity)
She's as tall as her sister
• Not so/as + adjective/adverb + as (to show difference )
It isn't so/as far as we thought
• less /least (to show inferiority)
The film I saw yesterday was less interesting than the one I saw last week
• comparative + and + comparative (to indicate continual increase or decrease)
The car was going faster and faster

7. Now let's practice with some exercises

8. Este tema como pudiste darte cuenta no es nuevo, ya habiamos visto adjetivos, adverbios para
comparativos y superlativos, en este tema pudiste ver quiza algunas excepciones o algo mas sobre el
tema como un extra, es importante que sepamos diferenciar entre un adjetivo y un adverbio para
que cuando los usemos en una oracion no cometamos errores lo cual es muy comun. Como lo
pudiste checar en la presentación, los adjetivos califican o describen sujetos y los adverbios califican
o describen a los verbos o acciones ambos son utilizados en los comparativos y los superlativos,
recordemos que los comparativos nos sirven para destacar uno del otro es decir que estan
inmiscuidos dos sujetos animales u objetos y los superlativos se trata de elegir al numero uno del
grupo, es decir al mas... la diferencia gramatical la encontraraemos en las terminaciones de los
adjetivos ya sean cortos o largos de acuerdo al numero de silabas que estos contengan.
Esperamos que este repaso no haya sido dificil pues lo esperado es que se aclaren dudas pues como
ya lo mencionamos anteriormenete no es un tema que estemos viendo por primera vez
Aqui te dejamos las respuestas del ejercicio de la lamina 7 como siempre te recordamos que es
importante que contestes los ejercicios primero ya que de esta manera podras practicar y aclarar
dudas. Suerte en tu proxima sesión de nivel 7
1. more exciting 2. the youngest 3. weaker 4.as little 5.more difficult 6.harder 7.farther 8.as quickly

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