Daily Archives: 28 January 2008

adjectives: comparison

Hi everybody!

Do you remember how to make comparative adjectives????
Here I am to help you remember with these rules and examples:

-er is added to the end of a 1-syllable adjective	cold – colder than small – smaller than tall – taller than	Winter is usually colder than summer. The green hat is smaller than the yellow one.
more is used for words that have 2 syllables, if the word doesn’t end in -y. if they end by -y it changes to -i and we add -er	honest more honest than modern more modern than easy easier	Chinese is more difficult than English. Catalan is easier than German
more is used for words that have 3 or more syllables	expensive more expensive than comfortable more comfortable than
adjectives that end in -e, only -r is added to end of the adjective	nice -nicer than safe -safer than
adjective that end in a consonant, vowel, consonant – the last consonant is doubled	big -bigger than fat- fatter than hot -hotter than	My house is bigger than my sister’s. Summer in Spain is hotter than winter.

and don’t forget the irregular ones:

good better than
bad worse than

adjective comparison practice on-line