AdjectivesUnit 4Pages: 32-33High School Grammar Book

Prepared by: Maali HamdanSemester B, January 2014

An adjective

Tells us something about a noun. Example: Jim is wearing a nice shirt.

We put adjectives

Before nouns:That’s a beautiful photo.

After the verb “to be” and linking verbs:

It’s cold.I feel cold.

Comparatives

We use the comparatives form of adejctivs to compare two items (people, places, things, ideas, etc.)

- He looks younger than he actually is.

- Fruit is more expensive now than it was last month.

There are two ways of making comparatives form with adjectives.

A. -er than B. more ____________than

A)We use –er (or –r after an adjective ending in a vowel):

For one syllable adjectives:Is Dana older than Avi?This is nicer jacket than the other one.

For two-syllable adjectives ending in y:

easy-easierfunny-funnierdirty-dirtiersilly-sillierThis exam is easier than that one.

For certain other two-syllable adjectives.

quiet-quieter simple-simplerclever-cleverergentle-gentlerThere is a simpler solution to that problem.

B) We use more____:

For adjectives of three or more syllables. The adjective itself does not change its form.

This is more interesting than I thought it would be.

This road is quicker but more dangerous.

For adjectives ending in –ed, even if they have only one syllable.

tired bored amused annoyed surprised

I’m more surprised than you can imagine.

For most two-syllable adjectives.

careful – more careful boring –

modern – more modern correct -

famous – more famous useful -

tiring – more tiring willing -

With all the following adjectives, we usually use –er, but more can also be used on occasion.

Isn’t your road narrower than it used to be?

I think it’s more pleasant today than it was yesterday.

The weather seems to be pleasanter this year than last year.

polite narrow stupid pleasant

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Irregular adjectives.

A few adjectives have irregular comparative forms:

good better

ill worse

little (size) smaller

bad worse

farfurther

(American: farther)

Italians footballers are good, but I think the Brazilians are better.

Yesterday’s lesson was bad, but today’s is even worse.

Haifa is quite far from Tel-Aviv, but Nahariya is even further.

Luxemboug is little but Monaco is smaller.

Note: Further is used in British and American English to mean “additional.” Here it is not the comparative of far.

I can’t answer that without further information.

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