Transcript Comparing People and Things (Revision)

Comparing People and
Things (Revision)
Comparing two People or
Things
Look at these sentences from the conversations
in lesson 2 :
Your brother’s handwriting is better than yours.
It’s clearer than yours.
It is easier- to understand than yours.
It is faster than yours.
Remember that we add-er to many adjectives when we want
to compare two people or things, and add than if we name
both:
clear ……………… clearer (than that)
fast....................…… faster (than that)
But remember these spelling rules
If an adjective ends with an e, add r only’
safe ………..……………safer (than that)
simple ……………..….simpler (than that)
If the adjective ends with a y, change the y to ier.
easy …………..easier (than that)
And remember that some adjectives are irregular:
good…………… better (than that)
bad ……………worse (than that)
Comparing more than two People or Things:
Look at this sentence from the conversation:
But, I’m doing my best.
Remember that we add-est to many adjectives when we
want to compare more than two people or things, and
the word the (or words like my, John’s etc.) is written
before the adjective.
Clear…………….. the clearest
Fast…………………the fastest
But remember these spelling rules.
If the adjective ends with an e, add St only:
Safe…………….. the safest
simple ………… the simplest
If an adjective ends with a y , change the y to iest .
easy ……………the easiest
And remember that some adjectives are irregular.
good ………………the best
bad ………………the worst
Look at this summary:
adjective
Slow
Clear
Sate
Simple
Easy
Good
bad
_____er
Slower than
Clearer than
Safer than
Simpler than
Easier than
Better than
Worse than
_____est
The slowest
The clearest
The safest
The simplest
The easiest
The best
The worst
Longer Adjectives
All the adjectives in 1,2, and 3 above are short. All of
them ( except easy) have only one syllable.
Longer adjectives (with more than one syllable) do
not usually add er --- or---est. Instead, the word more
or the most are put in front of them.
Do you remember these examples from the conversations on
page 58?
It’s more fluent and easier to
undersatnd.
It’s faster and more correct.
Look at this summary:
adjective
correct
fluent
beautiful
more + adjective
more correct than
more fluent than
more beautiful than
the most +
adjective
the most correct
the most fluent
the most beautiful