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    The document discusses comparative adjectives and how they are formed in English. For one-syllable adjectives, -er is added; for two-syllable adjectives ending in y, y is removed and ier is added; and for adjectives of two or more syllables, more is added before the adjective. Irregular adjectives good and bad have the forms better and worse. Comparative adjectives are used in sentences following the structure of noun + be + comparative + than + noun to compare two things.

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    The document discusses comparative adjectives and how they are formed in English. For one-syllable adjectives, -er is added; for two-syllable adjectives ending in y, y is removed and ier is added; and for adjectives of two or more syllables, more is added before the adjective. Irregular adjectives good and bad have the forms better and worse. Comparative adjectives are used in sentences following the structure of noun + be + comparative + than + noun to compare two things.

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    The document discusses comparative adjectives and how they are formed in English. For one-syllable adjectives, -er is added; for two-syllable adjectives ending in y, y is removed and ier is added; and for adjectives of two or more syllables, more is added before the adjective. Irregular adjectives good and bad have the forms better and worse. Comparative adjectives are used in sentences following the structure of noun + be + comparative + than + noun to compare two things.

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    Comparative adjectives

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    We use adjectives to describe things.

    For example:

    We use comparative adjectives to compare two things.

    For example:

    For one syllable adjectives we add ‘-er’ – Listen to the difference:

    Big - Bigger
    Adjective Comparative Adjective

    Big Bigger

    Small Smaller

    Hot Hotter

    Cold Colder

    There are 5 vowels in the English language – a, e, i, o, u. The other


    letters are all consonants.
    As you can see here, for one-syllable adjectives that end consonant-
    vowel- consonant, you must double the final consonant before adding
    ‘er’. Like big - bigger. You have 2 ‘g’s here.

    For two-syllable adjectives that end in ‘y’ we remove ‘y’ and add ‘ier’ –
    listen to the difference.

    Easy - Easier

    Adjective Comparative Adjective

    easy easier

    happy happier

    For two or more syllable adjectives, we put ‘more’ before the adjective.

    Modern - More Modern


    Adjective Comparative Adjective

    modern more modern

    beautiful more beautiful

    expensive more expensive

    ‘Good’ and ‘bad’ are irregular adjectives and have special comparative
    forms – listen to the difference.

    Good - Better
    Adjective Comparative Adjective

    good better

    bad worse

    Comparative adjectives in sentences


    We use comparative adjectives in this structure:

    Noun + be + comparative + than + Noun

    For example: The orange ball is bigger than the blue ball.

    Or
    The black shoes are more expensive than the red shoes.

    Take a look at this again with pictures:

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