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40PART 3: COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES
A.
Study Charts
Simple
Comparative
Superlative
tall
taller
tallest
Short Adjectives and Adverbs
Add -er / -est
big
bigger
biggest
old
older
oldest
busy
busier
busiest
Adjectives That End in -y
Change y to i, add -er / -est
easy
easier
easiest
important
more important
most important
Longer Adjectives
Add more /most before the adjective
wonderful
more wonderful
most wonderful
quickly
more quickly
most quickly
-ly Adverbs
Add more / most before the adverb
easily
more easily
most easily
good
better
best
Irregular Forms
well
better
best
bad
worse
worst
badly
worse
worst
far*
farther
farthest
far
further
furthest
little
less
least
more
most
a lot
Language Note:
Far, farther, farthest is used for distance.
Far, further, furthest is used for concepts.
He rode his bike the farthest.
He explained his idea further.
Examples
Comparison Patterns
He is taller than his father.
•
short adjective / adverb + -er + than
Comparative
Forms
He is more intelligent than his brother.
•
more + long adjective + than
He drives more carefully than you do.
•
more + -ly adverb + than
He is the tallest person in his family.
•
the + short adjective / adverb + -est
Superlative
Forms
He is the most intelligent person in
•
the most + long adjective
his family.
•
the most + -ly adverb
He drives the most carefully of anyone
in his family.
He is as tall as his brother.
•
as adjective as
Equality with
Adjectives
She doesn’t dance as well as me.
•
as adverb as
and Adverbs
Equality with
He has as much money as you do.
•
as much noncount noun as
Quantities
I don’t have as many friends as you do.
•
as many plural noun as
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