This document provides examples and explanations of comparative and superlative structures in English grammar. It discusses repeating comparatives with continuous aspects, using "more and more" for longer comparatives, and how to indicate decreases with "drop". Examples are given for comparative adjectives to compare two objects, and superlative adjectives to compare one object from a group. Exercises at the end provide practice identifying correct and incorrect uses of less/fewer in sentences.

1. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE
CHIMBORAZO
Escuela de idiomas
Grammar V
Names: Darío Amancha
Patricio castillo
Elvis guaranga
5th Semester

2. REPEATING COMPARATIVES
 Usually with the present continuous.
 When we want to express continuous (separated
by and.)
Examples:
 My uncle grew fatter and fatter over the years.
 As Microsoft grew, Bill Gates got richer and richer.
 The balloon got bigger and bigger and then burst.

3. ‘MORE AND MORE’ FOR LONGER COMPARATIVES
 We don’t repeat comparative adjectives that are
used with more.
Examples:
 Things are getting more and more expensive.
 This book gets more and more interesting with every
chapter.
 He spoke for over an hour and his explanation got more
and more complicated.

4. DROP
 To indicate that something decreases
Examples:
uncountable
 As you get older, you become less and less flexible.
 She needs less and less money every day.
 I have less and less time to cook
countable
 She needs less and less money every day.
 Fewer and fewer people get married now
 There are fewer and fewer fish in the sea

5. COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE
ADJECTIVES
Comparative adjectives
 We use comparative adjectives to do a comparison between
two objects.
 Noun + verb + (more) comparative adjective + than + noun
(object).
Superlative adjectives
 We use superlative adjectives to compare one object from a
group.
 Noun + verb + the (most) + superlative adjective + noun
(object).

6. COMPARATIVE OR SUPERLATIVE?
 We use comparatives to compare people and thing
with other people and things
Examples:
 Peter is younger than his father.
 Rose is taller than Mary.
 Jane is the fastest girl.
 Cris is the slowest girl.

7. EXERCISES
 1. He gets boring. (boring).
 2. This book is getting interesting.
(interesting).
 3. My daughter's English results are getting
h ( bad).
 4. Sally arrives (late) at work.
more and more
more and more
worse and worse.
later and later

8. Look at these sentences and put a tick next to those
that use less/fewer correctly.
 a) You should buy less CDs.
 b) I really ought to drink less vodka.
 c) She seems to have less time these days.
 d) The tree has got fewer apples on it this year.
 a) I have visited fewer countries than you have.
 b) My house has fewer rooms than the one next
door.
 c) At the barbecue last night, I ate fewer sausages
than Tim did.
 d) At the barbecue last night, I drank less orange
juice than Tim did.
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