Here are the answers with the comparative or superlative forms filled in:
1. My mother’s shoes are bigger than mine.
2. Lunch was less good than dinner.
3. English is less interesting than mathematics
4. I am older than my brother
5. Angela seems happier than she was a year ago.
6. The new curtains are longer than the old ones.
7. The homework was more difficult than the test.
8. The room feels colder than it was this morning
9. Ahmet got to school later than usual.
10. A Mercedes is more expensive than a Renault.
11. Talking on the phone is more expensive than sending email.
2. Comparatives
• If you want to say that people, places, things etc, are not
equal use comparative adjectives and adverbs
• ……. More/less + adjective /adverb (- er than…..)
• Istanbul is more crowded than Izmir
• Izmir is warmer than Istanbul
• You sister is more beautiful than you.
• Your father drives more carefully than your mother.
• Diyarbakir is smaller than Istanbul.
• It is cheaper to live in a village than in a city.
• My grandmother is nicer than my upstairs neighbor
• Antalya is hotter than Samsun
• Cyprus closer to Turkey than the U.K.
3. Superlatives
• If you want to say one person or thing in a group is far
more better/worse than the rest you use superlative
• Use the + superlative adj/adv (the - est/the
most/least adj/adv)
• The most + adjective /adverb
• You are the tallest person in the class.
• Ayse is the laziest student in the class.
• Diyarbakir is one of the hottest cities in Turkey.
• My mother cooks the best meals in our family.
• My boy friend drives the fastest car .
• She is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen
• That is the best music I have listen to so far.
• THY is the best airlines in the Middle East.
4. Comparatives & Superlatives
• One syllable adjectives • Old older oldest
• Safe safer safest
• Young younger youngest
• Smart smarter smartest
• Clever cleverer cleverest
• One syllable which ends in one
vowel one consonant double the • Big bigger biggest
consonant • Hot hotter hottest
• Noisy noisier noisiest
• Adjectives ending in – y drop y and • Dirty dirtier dirtiest
and – ier
• Two or more syllable adjectives • Beautiful more beautiful the most beautiful
• Careful more careful the most careful
take more+ dj (comp) most + adj
• Modern more modern the most modern
(superlatives)
• Irregular adjectives
• Good better the best
• Bad worse the worst
• Far further furthest
5. Put the comparative or superlative forms in the blanks:
1. My mother’s shoes are ____________ than mine. (big)
2. Lunch was ____________ than dinner. (little good)
3. English is ____________ than mathematics (little interesting)
4. I am __________ than my brother (old )
5. Angela seems _________than she was a year ago. (happy)
6. The new curtains __________ than the old ones (longer) .
7. The homework was ________________ than the test. (difficult)
8. The room feels ____________ than it was this morning (cold)
9. Ahmet got to school ___________ than usual. (late)
10. Mercedes is ___________ than a Renault.
11. Talking on the phone is ______________ than sending email. (expensive)