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THE ADJECTIVE
DEGREES OF COMPARISON
Swan 136.3 2-SYLLABLE: happy – happier – happiest; unhappy –unhappier – unhappiest
Some two-syllable adjectives can have –er, -est, especially adjectives ending in
1. an unstressed vowel: narrow – narrower narrowest,
2. [l] simple –simpler –simplest,
3. [ (r)] clever – cleverer – cleverest
4. quiet – quieter –quietest
Two ways of building: polite, common
More/most ONLY with those ending in –ing, -ed, -ful, -less
Good-looking better-looking best-looking
more good-looking most good-looking
Well-known
Swan 138 (1) COMPARATIVE DEGREE One person, thing, action, event or group is compared with another person, thing, etc.
Mary is taller than her three sisters.
SUPERLATIVE smb/smth with the group he/she/it belongs to
Mary's the tallest of the four girls.
(6) all/any/none the wiser=by that much I feel all the better for the swim. He explained it all carefully, but I was still none the wiser. – to express abstract ideas.
PATTERNS
1. Your apple is sweet er than mine.
2. She is more beautiful than her sister.
3. She is the most beautiful girl I 've ever seen
in her class / town / world.
What is the happi est day of your life / day of the year?
the happi est man in the world / place
the fatt est player in the team / group
with plurals the fatt est player of them all
before lot / bunch the best of the lot
4. She is the more beautiful of the two sisters.
a group with two members: I like Betty and Maud, but I think Maud's the nic er of the two.
5. She is a most pretty girl. (крайне, чрезвычайно, весьма)
6. Your task is as easy as mine. She is as tall as her brother.
7. You task isn't as/so easy as mine.
He is not as/so successful as his sister. Swan 70
Please get here as soon / adverb / as possible.
She doesn't sing as well as me/ as I do.
8. Your task is much / far / still / no easi er than mine (Note p. 29)
9. Nick is my elder ( as an attribute only) brother. He is 5 years older (bothas an attribute and a predicative) than me.
The eldest member of the club (society, political organization).
Swan 180 elder / eldest to talk about the order of birth of the members of a family.
My elder / older brother has just married.
His oldest / eldest daughter is a medical student.
ELDER when a person has only one brother/sister who is older
ELDEST when there are more: elder son/daughter is the older of the two.
Eldest son/daughter is the oldest of the 2 or more.
10. Where is the nearest shop? We get off at the next stop.
In the near future; within the next few days.
11. What is the latest news? What is his last/latest book?/ the former… the latter
12. Get down to business without any further delay. This road is no farther.
13. The sooner this is done, the better. The more I study, the less I learn.
14. The sound grew fainter and fainter.
(4) He is getting fatter and fatter. – to say smth is changing.
We are going more and more slowly.
15. half as clever; twice as… as: He is twice as old as me. - ONLY
16. It took me three times as long as / longer than I had expected.
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