11 class

COMPARISON WITH ADJECTIVES

Add the ending -er to one-syllable adjectives to make their comparative forms and -est to make their superlative fonns. For adjectives with three or more syllables we usually add moredess and most/least.

It’s too noisy here. Can we go somewhere quieter?

More expensive hotels are usually more comfortable than cheaper one.

There are some adjectives which have irregular focus:

Some adjectives with two syllables are only used or are most commonly used with more/less and

most/least, particularly participle adjectives (e.g. pleased, worried, boring), adjectives ending in -ly,

-ful and -less (e.g. careful, careless); afraid, alike, alert, ashamed, alone, aware; and also cautious, certain, complex, confident, eager, exact, formal, frequent, modem, recent.

Could you speak more slowly, please?

Some adjectives have a comparative or superlative meaning so they are rarely used with -er/-est or

more/less/most/least. These include complete, equal, favourite, ideal, unique.

An exception: 'All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.'

(George Orwell: Animal Farm)

Use as ... as with an adjective in between to say that something or someone is like something or someone else, or that one situation is like another:

Was the film as funny as his last one?

Andrew came round to my flat as quickly as he could.

Negative forms of sentences like this can use either not as or not so/such...as.

The gap between the sides is not as wide as it was. (or ...is less wide than it was.)

They are not such well-behaved children as in the last school I worked at.

She was as patient a teacher as anyone could have had.

То say that as one thing changes, another thing also changes, we can use sentences like:

The better the joke (is), the louder the laugh (is).

The longer Sue stays in Canada, the less likely she will ever go back to England. It almost seems that the more expensive the wedding, the shorter the marriage!

Task 1. Complete the sentences with an appropriate comparative or superlative adjective. Use an -er/-est or more/most form. Indicate where both forms are possible.

common                              likely        relaxed         confident           wide       alike

1.       I feel much                                                 now that the exams are over.

2.       Our new car is a little                                         than our old one, but still fits easily into the garage.

3.       Now that they had both had their hair cut, the twins looked even                                    than usual.

4.       Throughout the match, Barcelona looked the                                                   winners.

5.       Scientists claim that oil pollution is now the                                      cause of death among sea birds.

6.       Thc last exam was quite easy and I began to feel                                                about my results.

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