This document discusses strategies for using comparatives, equatives, and superlatives in English. Comparatives are used to describe more than one thing or show relationships between things using the comparative form of adjectives. Equatives compare something unfamiliar to something familiar to explain it. Superlatives describe the single best or highest ranked thing using the superlative form of adjectives.

1. English
Structure and written expression:
strategies and lessons

2. COMPARATIVES
• To describe more than one thing
• To show relationship between things
–Using comparative form of adjectives

5. EQUATIVES
• To explain something unfamiliar, it is useful to compare
something that is familiar to the listener

7. The Superlative
• To describe the number one thing in the world