Wednesday 17 November 2010

ADJECTIVES: COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE

ADJECTIVES: COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE 

 -er/-est
• 1-syllabled adjectives: older, hotter, …
• Adjectives ending in –y: happier, earlier, prettier…


More/most
• 3-syllabled adjectives: more beautiful...
• Adjectives ending in –ful/-less: more beautiful, useful, useless,...
• Adj ending in –ing/-ed: more boring, frightening,...
• Others: afraid,certain, correct, eager, exact, famous, foolish, frequent, modern, nervous, normal, recent


2-syllabled adjectives not mentioned before can take both forms.

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