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3B - UNIT 9 - PART 2. By Lilian Marchesoni http:// lilianstoolbox.pbworks.com. COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES. The son is much younger than his father. Use comparatives to compare two things or people.
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3B - UNIT 9 - PART 2 By Lilian Marchesoni http://lilianstoolbox.pbworks.com
Use comparatives to compare two things or people. We can modify comparative adjectives with a bit, a little, and slightly (these mean quite) and a lot, much and far (these mean very).
The son is the most intelligent person in the family.
Use superlatives to compare someone or something in a group with other things in that group. We often use superlatives with the present perfect and with phrases beginning with in the...
To say that two things or people are the same, we often use as... as... We can use not as... as... to make a negative comparison.