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COMPARATIVE ADJECTIVES:

We use comparative adjectives to show change or make comparisons:
DESARROLLO:
How to form comparative and superlative adjectives?

We usually add –er to one-syllable and two-syllable adjectives to make
comparatives.

If an adjective ends in a consonant
adjective er than and –y, we change –y to –i and add –

er

happy happier

Carlos is taller than Erick.
silly sillier

Maria looks happier than The

Kate. adjectives good, bad and far have
irregular comparatives.

Actions speak louder than
Good better
words.
bad worse
Spelling rules:
far farther/further
If an adjective ends in a vowel and a
consonant, we double the We use more to make comparatives
consonant: for most two syllable adjectives and
for all adjectives with three or more
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syllables:

fat fatter
Careful more careful
If an adjective ends in –e, we add –r.
Interesting more interesting
nice nicer

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