Hello!
In this video we'll be looking at 'more' and 'the most expensive'.
We're looking at 'more accurate than' and 'the most amazing', hope you find it useful!
In scene one we have two young doctors here, one is showing his new watch to the other
one and saying (I'll write it up here) "this watch, this watch is more accurate than my
old one", "this watch is more accurate than my old one".
And the other doctor says "yes, but was it more expensive?", "but was it more expensive?".
"Yes, I'm afraid so", "I'm afraid it was", "I'm afraid so".
Remember in the last video we did we had 'old' and 'older', we used '-er' and 'big' and 'bigger'
(don't forget the double 'g' there on 'bigger' but this time we don't use '-er'.
Why not?
Look at 'accurate' - one, two, three syllables, look at 'expensive' - one, two, three syllables.
When words have got, adjectives have got three syllables or more: look at this word 'extraordinary'
- one, one or two there, three, four, five syllables the same thing is true.
So any word with three or more syllables we use (and I'll just underline them) 'more',
'than' or just 'more' by itself.
Right, let's now go on to the next scene.
And here we have a very happy couple standing behind a cake, the sun is shining and he is
saying (I'll just write it up here) "this is the most", "this is the most wonderful
day" (I'm going to write 'day') "of my life".
"This is the most wonderful day of my life", that's nice.
And she's going to say something similar "this is the most, the most beautiful - this is
the most beautiful day I've ever had".
So, we can guess, they're getting married.
And he's thinking about the cake and he's saying and "this is the most amazing cake!"
"this is the most amazing cake" - I can see he's looking forward to it.
Now cast your mind back to the earlier video 'old' and we used the ending 'old-est' and
'big' and the ending 'big-gest'(don't forget the double consonant) but hear we use 'the
most'.
Why?
Well, look at 'wonderful' and it's got one, two, three syllables and 'beautiful' has got
one, two, three syllables and 'amazing' has got one, two, three syllables.
So when an adjective has got three syllables or more, we use 'the most', 'the most' and
'the most'.
Now let's move on to the summary and first of all I talk about what we looked at in the
earlier video 'younger than', 'the oldest', 'nicer', 'fitter', 'biggest' and then we have
a look at the ones we looked at today, which are 'more accurate than' and 'the most expensive'.
So, what's the difference?
The ones on the left, they are all one syllable words, watch out for the spellings, I'll write
'one syllable' up there and the ones on the right are three syllable words 'acc-u-rate',
'ex-pen-sive', one, two, three and don't forget also those longer words like 'ex-tra-or-din-ary'
which have got five or six syllables, depending on how you pronounce it.
So I'll write at the top 'three + syllables'.
But, there's still something missing, the two syllable adjectives in the middle.
I'll write in a list of them 'happy', 'modern', 'helpful', 'honest', 'advanced', there are
plenty more.
They are all two syllable adjectives and some of them take '-er' and '-est' like the one
syllable ones and some of them take 'more' and 'most' like the three syllable ones.
But we have a separate video on that which you might like to look at on the two syllable
adjectives.
Bye for now!