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Comparative adjectives

Comparative adjectives. Erica is tall er than Lucia. The Earth is hott er than Mars. A car is heavi er than a motorcycle. Silver cars are more common than yellow cars. Short adjectives. 1 syllable:

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Comparative adjectives

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  1. Comparative adjectives • Erica is tallerthan Lucia. • The Earth is hotterthan Mars. • A car is heavierthan a motorcycle. • Silver cars are morecommon than yellow cars.

  2. Short adjectives • 1 syllable: short, tall, big, small, fat, thin, hot, cold, cheap, safe, fast, slow, new, old, dry, wet • 2 syllables, ending in –y: healthy, heavy, risky, funny, friendly, noisy

  3. Short adjectives • Erica is tallerthan Lucia. 2. The Earth is hotterthan Mars. 3. A car is heavierthan a motorcycle.

  4. Long adjectives • 2 syllables: common, famous, handsome • 3+ syllables: popular, intelligent, beautiful, expensive, dangerous, aggressive, generous, serious

  5. Long adjectives • Silver cars are morecommon than yellow cars. • Stephen Hawkins is more intelligent than Carla Perez.

  6. Irregular comparative adjectives • Good Pelé is a better footballer thanNeymar. • Bad Barrichello is a worse pilot thanSenna. • Far Campinas is farther/further from SP than Santos

  7. Adverbs • quick  quickly • aggressive  aggressively • careful  carefully • healthy  healthily • bad badly • good  well • hard  hard • fast  fast

  8. Adverbs • We walk very quickly in SP. • Young men drive aggressively. • Old ladies drive carefully. • People in Rio live healthily. • The staff at IPT speak English very well. • They work very hard. • They write reports very fast.

  9. Comparative adverbs  Most adverbs are long!  • We drive more quickly in SP than in Bauru. • Pit-bulls behave more aggressively thanpoodles. • People drive more carefully after a near-accident.

  10. Comparative adverbs  A few (usually irregular) adverbs are short  • The Japanese work harderthan the Canadians. • Some taxi drivers drive fasterthan F1 pilots. • You speak English betterthan the people in the elementary level. • You write in English worsethan in Portuguese.

  11. Comparatives of equality • My brother is not astall as me / as I am. • She is asbeautifulas Nicole Kidman. • He doesn’t drive asfastas me / as I do. • We don’t work ashardas the Japanese. • She drives ascarefullyas an old lady. as long as = on the condition that as well as = and also

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