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    Adjectives (comparison)

    Adjectives can compare two things or more than two things. When we make these
    comparisons, we use comparative and superlative forms of adjectives.

    Base Comparative Superlative


    Irregular → 1. Bad Worse (The) worst
    2. Good Better (The) best
    3. Little Less (The) least
    4. Far Farther/Further (The) farthest / furthest
    ••••••••••••• ••••••••••••••••••••• ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
    RULES: Examples:
    Group 1 → Bright Brighter (The) brightest
    Group 2 → Big Bigger (The) biggest
    Group 3 → Angry Angrier (The) angriest
    Group 4 → Brave Braver (The) bravest
    Group 5 → Attractive more/less attractive (The) most/least Attractive

    Group #1
    (add to these adjectives: –er meaning ‘more’ / add –est for the superlative)

    Bright Dark Loud Poor Sick Sweet


    Fresh Fast Low Proud Slow Tall
    Calm Few Mean Quiet Small Thick
    Cheap Great Narrow Rich Smart Tight
    Clean Hard Near Rough Soft Warm
    Clear High Neat Round Sour Weak
    Cold Light New Sharp Strange Wild
    Cool Long Old Short Strong Young

    Group #2
    (the last three letters: consonant-vowel-consonant = double final consonant of the adjective
    then add: –er / –est [except the ones finished in “y” or “w”] )

    Big Glad Red Thin


    Fat Hot Sad Wet
    Flat Mad Slim

    Group #3
    (change ‘y’ to ‘i’ and add: ‘er’ [ - ier] / [ -iest ] )

    Angry Dry Happy Messy Sloppy Sunny


    Bushy Early Healthy Noisy Snowy Thirsty
    Busy Easy Heavy Pretty Sorry Ugly
    Chubby Fancy Hungry Shiny Spicy Wavy
    Cloudy Foggy Lazy Shy Stingy Wealthy
    Crazy Friendly Lonely Silly Stumpy Windy
    Curly Funny Lucky Sleepy Sturdy Worthy

    Group #4
    (adjective ending in “e”, only add: ‘r’ / ‘st’ )

    Brave Fine Large Nice Strange Wise


    Blue Huge Late Safe White
    Cute Insane Loose Sane Wide

    Group #5
    (adjectives of two or more syllables: use ‘more’ / ‘the most’ before these adjectives)

    Attractive Dishonest Hospitable Scaring


    Afraid Durable Humid Selfish
    Amazing Elegant Impatient Serious
    Awful Energetic Important Skillful
    Beautiful Enormous Inexpensive Slender
    Capable Exciting Inspiring Special
    Charming Exhausting Intelligent Stubborn
    Classical Expensive Interesting Successful
    Clever Familiar Modern Sympathetic
    Colorful Famous Nervous Talented
    Comfortable Fantastic Obnoxious Talkative
    Common Fascinating Overweight Tender
    Confident Fashionable Patient Tiring
    Contaminated Fashionable Pleasant Understanding
    Convenient Fattening Polite Uninteresting
    Courageous Forgetful Polluted Unlucky
    Delicious Frightening Popular Unpopular
    Different Handsome Powerful Upset
    Difficult Historic Reliable Useful
    Disappointing Honest Robust Worried

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