COMPARATIVE ADJECTIVES

COMPARATIVES HELP US TO COMPARE TWO THINGS

COMPARATIVE RULES

A) one syllable adjetives generally from its comaprative by adding -er to the adjective: e.g. soft - soft er , cheap - cheaper, sweet - sweeter.

B) if one syllable is followed by a single consonant - vowel - consonant, the last consonant is doubled: e.g. hot - hotter, thin - thinner, big - bigger.

C) if the adjetive ends in e, simply add r, e.g. nice - nicer, wide - wider.

D) if one or two adjective ends whit a y, replace the -y by -i, when adding er. e.g.

E) two syllable adjectives ending whith -ed, -ing, -ful, or less, forms its comparative by adding more + adjective e.g. tired - more tired,  helpful - more helpful, useless - more useless, boring - more boring.

F) irregular adjectives are: good - better, bad - worse, far - father/futher.

G) adjectives that have more than three of four syllables always form the adjrctive with more e.g. dangerous - more dangerous, intelligent - more intellingent.