Download to read offline
More Related Content
Unit comparisons
- 1.
- 2. Adjectives in Englishhave 3 forms : (POSITIVE, COMPARATIVE and SUPERLATIVE POSITIVE COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIVE 1OR WE COMPARE 2… 1=1 1 ˃ THE OTHER WE COMPARE ˃2 (more than 2) 1˃ THE REST small smaller the smallest beautiful more beautiful the most beautiful
- 3. POSITIVE I am veryintelligent. She is very rich. You are as tall as Tom. COMPARATIVE Queen Elisabeth II is richer THAN Juan Carlos I. My mother is more intelligent THAN the teacher. SUPERLATIVE I am the tallest student in my classroom. That sofa is the most comfortable in the shop.
- 4. POSITIVE 1 SYLLABLE 2 SYLLABLES ENDINGINY/ER 2 OR MORE SYLLABLES COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIVE TALL THIN FAST TALLER THAN THINNER THAN FASTER THAN THE TALLEST THE THINNEST THE FASTEST PRETTY CLEVER EASY PRETTIER THAN CLEVERER THAN EASIER THAN THE PRETTIEST THE CLEVEREST THE EASIEST MODERN INTELLIGENT COMFORTABLE MORE MODERN THAN MORE INTELLIGENT THAN MORE COMFORTABLE THAN THE MOST MODERN THE MOST INTELLIGENT THE MOST COMFORTABLE
- 5. SPELLING RULES ADJECTIVES THATEND IN… •SILENT –E DROP ONE –E •LARGE LARGER •1 VOWEL + 1CONSONANT •BIG •L THE LARGEST DOUBLE THE LAST CONSONANT BIGGER THE BIGGEST CRUELLER THE CRUELLEST DOUBLE THE –L •CRUEL •2 SYLLABLE ADJ ENDIND IN –Y •EASY •HAPPY EASIER HAPPIER CHANGE THE –Y INTO –I AND SUFFIX THE EASIEST THE HAPPIEST
- 6. IRREGULARS POSITIVE COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIVE GOOD BETTER THE BEST BAD WORSE THE WORST LITTLE LESS THELEAST FAR FARTHER/FURTHER THE FARTHEST/FURHEST OLD OLDER/ELDER THE OLDEST/ELDEST MUCH MORE THE MOST MANY MORE THE MOST
- 7. IRREGULARS POSITIVE COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIVE GOOD BETTER THE BEST BAD WORSE THE WORST LITTLE LESS THELEAST FAR FARTHER/FURTHER THE FARTHEST/FURHEST OLD OLDER/ELDER THE OLDEST/ELDEST MUCH MORE THE MOST MANY MORE THE MOST