ENGLISH II UNIT 1, LESSON 1 COMPARATIVE.

Describing a street, city or neighborhood.

• Monterrey is a big city.
• Mexico city is noisy and dirty.
• Guadalajara is a traditional and beautiful city.
• Santiago is a small city.
• Houston is a large city.
• Toronto city  is really safe.
• New York is a populated city.

The underlined words are called adjectives and they are used to describe people or things. 

 Sometimes we need to compare different objects or people, so we use comparative forms

To make comparative forms  we need to identify if the adjective is short or long, for example:

SHORT ADJECTIVES: (1 syllable adjective)

• big                          bigger

• small                    smaller

• large                     larger

• happy                  happier

• ugly                      uglier

• noisy                    noisier

LONG ADJECTIVES  (2, 3 or more syllables)

• beautiful            more beautiful
• expensive          more expensive
• modern              more modern

SPELLING RULES

In short adjectives ending with consonant-vowel-consonant, the last consonant must be doubled.

EXAMPLES:

1. big  -  bigger
2. thin  -  thinner
3. fat    -  fatter

If the adjective has 2 syllables and ends with y, the letter y must be changed by i, and add the suffix er.

1. ugly - uglier
2. noisy - noisier
3. dirty  - dirtier
4. happy - happier

LOOK CAREFULLY THE NEXT EXAMPLES:

1. New York city is bigger than Washington D.C.
2. Monterrey is more modern than Merida, Yucatán.
3. Mexico city is noisier than Guadalajara.

Now complete the next sentences using the comparative forms.

1. New York city is ________  ___________  Austin Texas.  (large)

1. Chicago is ________ __________ _________   Alabama.  (modern)

1. London is ________ ____________ _________  Paris.  (expensive)

1. Toronto is _______ __________ New York.  (clean)

1. Rome is _________ ___________ Berlin.  (small)

THERE ARE SOME IRREGULAR ADJECTIVES WHICH DONT FOLLOW THE RULES, CHECK THIS OUT:

1. good    -    bettter       gooder
2. bad     -    worse          bader
3. far       -    further       farer

1. Living in a city is better than living in a town.
2. Traveling by bus is worse than traveling by car
3. New York is further than Houston.

YOU CAN ALSO CHECK OUT THE NEXT LINKS:

COMPARATIVE

BRITISH COUNCIL COMPARATIVE ADJECTIVES

VOA NEWS DESCRIBING PEOPLE

GRADABLE AND NON GRADABLE ADJECTIVES

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