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UNIVERSITAS MUSAMUS TOEFL PREPARATION

COMPARATIVES

1. POSITIVE DEGREE (EXACT COMPARISON)
❖ Your bag is the same as mine.
Noun + Be + the same as + Noun
❖ Your bag and my bag are the same.
Noun + and + Noun + Be + the same
❖ These bags are the same.
Noun (Plural) + Be + the same
❖ Your bag is as big as mine.
Noun + Be + as + Adj + as + Noun

2. GENERAL SIMILARITY AND DIFFERENCE
❖ Your bag is like the one in the display.
Noun + Be + like + Noun
❖ Your bag and the one in the display are alike.
Noun + and + Noun + Be + alike
❖ These bags are alike.
Determiner + Noun plural + Be + alike
❖ Your bag is different from the one in the display.
Noun + Be + different from + Noun

3. COMPARATIVE DEGREE
❖ Oranges contain more vitamin C than apples.
Noun1 + V + more + N + than + Noun2
❖ Lakes are generally deeper than rivers.
Noun1 + Be + Adj –er + than + Noun2
❖ Weather in Indonesia is more humid than the weather in Australia.
Noun1 + Be + more + Adj + than + Noun2

4. COMPARATIVE DEGREE FOR ESTIMATION
❖ Sugar costs twice as much as cooking oil.
Noun1 + V + Adv of frequency + as + many/ much + as + Noun2
❖ Indonesia has more than one hundred islands.
Noun1 + V + More (less) than + Number + Noun2
❖ The festival has as many as forty five performers.
Noun1 + V + as many as + number + Noun2
5. SUPERLATIVE DEGREE
❖ Mt. Bromo is the highest mountain that I have ever climbed.
Noun + Be + the + Adj-est + Noun
❖ The test was the most difficult one so far.
Noun + Be + the + most Adj + Noun

6. DOUBLE COMPARISON
❖ The brighter a star shines, the hotter its surface will be.
The + Comparative…….., the + Comparative ………

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