Comparative and Superlative Adjectives for beginners
Comparative adjectives are used to compare one noun to another noun. Superlative adjectives are used to compare three or more nouns.
Comparative and Superlative Adjectives
Comparative adjectives are forms of adjectives that are used to compare two things or people.
Comparative | Superlative | |
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fast |
fast |
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nice |
nic |
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tall |
tall |
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beautiful |
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comfortable |
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expensive |
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Comparative Adjectives
We use Comparative adjectives when we want to talk about an adjective to show that something is of higher or lower level or degree of quality.
This tea is
Miranda is
How to Make Comparative Adjectives?
For one-syllable adjectives, all you have to do is add '-er' to the end of them. For example:
The man acted
She was
For adjectives that have more than one syllable, add 'more' before them. When we want to compare two things or persons, we use 'than'. For example:
This bag is
Superlative Adjectives
Superlative adjectives are forms of adjectives that show the extreme or highest degree of a quality.
How to Make Superlative Adjectives?
For one-syllable adjectives, all you have to do is add '-est' to the end of them and put 'the' before it. For example:
The
He is the
For adjectives that have more than one syllable, add 'the most' before them. For example:
This is the
The princess was the
Irregular Ones
Some adjectives do not follow these rules. Such as:
comparative | superlative | |
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good | better | the best |
bad | worse | the worst |