hello everyone how are you today this is
Marc, I'm doing just great thanks for
asking some people think Italian cuisine
is better than the French
one, actually I think Italian cuisine
is the best in this lesson we're going
to talk about comparative and
superlative adjectives so stay tuned
let's look at comparative and
superlative adjectives let me tell you
first that I have a lesson on adjectives
if you want to watch that lesson you may
click here now let me remind you that
adjectives describe a noun or a pronoun
and there are a lot of types of
adjectives the first one is called the
descriptive one like busy bitter nice
etc the ones that describe the noun or the pronoun then demonstrative much
like demonstrative pronouns
this that these those this child drives
me crazy for example this child possessive
adjectives much like the possessive
pronouns my your his her etc my wife
likes English a lot for example then
proper adjectives Chinese Italian
Canadian etc then we have interrogative
adjectives like which and what so for
example when we ask a question which
book do you prefer this one or that one
then we have indefinite adjectives some
any a few many etc
many people watch TV these days
and then we have number adjectives 6 4 1
11 12 etc he ate three burgers now one
last thing that I want to tell you
before I erase this adjectives do not
change they say the same though they
sometimes change when you compare two or
more nouns and I'm going to show you that
I drew a very nice diagram just for you
we're back with the diagram so let's
look at the first rule one syllable
adjectives and you ask yourself one
syllable yes you can check the syllables
in English on your dictionary there you
can see if it has one syllable two
syllables or more one-syllable
adjectives take adjective + er + then in
the comparative if you want to compare
a noun with another noun for example he
is shorter than me he is shorter than me
so short is one syllable and I add it ER
for the superlatives we need to add the
the article the + adjective + EST
so the example here always with short
the shortest in the class the
shortest in the class so the second rule
is two-syllable adjectives ending with y
change into i for example so adjective +
IE r + than she's happier than me so
happy if the adjective ending with y we
change the Y into i so happier than me
the superlative is the same so we add
the article the + adjective + iEST
the happiest girl I know the third rule
so short adjectives one-syllable
adjectives ending with E example
adjective + r + than they are nicer
so we don't add another e we just add
R then the superlative THE +
adjective + ST so the nicest boy we take
out the E and we just leave the R in
the comparative and superlative ST so
the other rule the fourth rule it will
be for short adjective one-syllable
adjectives ending with consonant + vowel
+ consonant we double it so for example
adjective + consonant + ER so Kelly is
fatter so consonant vowel consonant we
double the last consonant fatter than
her another girl superlative the
same thing so the + adjective +
consonant + EST so the fattest in the
class so FAT double the T so fattest in the
class
so two or more syllables here we add
more for comparative adjectives
so more plus adjective + than for
example Mary is more beautiful so this
is two-syllable adjective so more
beautiful than her how do I know if it
two or one you look up the word in your
dictionary so in this case beauty-ful
two-syllable so she is more beautiful
than her than another girl the
superlatives the + most +
adjective the most beautiful in the
class now there are irregulars
like everywhere right ? and so the
irregulars are good goes to better than
bad turns into worse than far we have two
farther or further than the little turns
into less than many more than for the
superlatives for the same adjectives good
the best bad the worst far the farthest
or the farthest little the least many
the most few things I want to mention
about comparative and superlative
adjectives the first one is that besides
comparing two nouns you can use
comparatives and modifiers just like my
two examples here a tougher teacher can
sometimes be better for some students or
he was the smartest person I've ever met
so modifiers you can use them as
modifiers number two as complements
after a link verb if you want to watch a
lesson on linking verbs you can click
here so for example her voice became
quieter became here is the link verb or
his friend was the tallest in the room
here was the verb to be is the link verb
the final point that I want to mention
is that as headwords in formal English
putting the in front of it Mary was the
most beautiful of the two of the two and
the last example the more sincere the
words the better so you can see the
right here and more sincere the better
so now let's recap ! In this lesson we looked
at comparative and superlative
adjectives I gave you few rules to
follow remember we have many types of
adjectives demonstrative possessive
descriptive etc remember that adjectives
don't change - that's it for today you
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