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    Comparative adjectives

    © Cambridge University Press 2016


    Short adjectives

    A plane is quicker
    . than a train.

    Apples are health y.


    ier than hamburgers.

    Oceans are big.ger than lakes.

    Swimming pools are safe r. than lakes.

    © Cambridge University Press 2016


    Long adjectives

    The tablet is ______________


    more expensive than the MP3 player.
    £140 £80

    more dangerous than tennis.


    Skydiving is _______________

    © Cambridge University Press 2016


    adjective comparative
    quick quicker
    big bigger
    safe
    safe r
    easy
    easiyer
    happy
    happiery than
    expensive
    dangerous expensive
    more
    good dangerous
    more
    bad better
    worse
    © Cambridge University Press 2016
    Comparatives in action
    Dan: My cat is bigger than your cat.
    Sally: Yes, but my cat is more beautiful than your cat.
    Dan: My cat’s whiskers are longer than your cat’s and he’s faster, too.
    Miaow!
    Sally: No, he’s not. My cat can catch mice and birds.
    Dan: Well my cat is more dangerous than that – he can catch zebras!
    Sally: Zebras? What is your cat?
    Dan: It’s a tiger!

    © Cambridge University Press 2016


    GET IT RIGHT!
    I can run faster
    more fast than you.

    worseworse than us.


    They are more

    than English.
    Maths is more difficult that

    © Cambridge University Press 2016


    Can you remember the rules?
    • We use the comparative form of the adjective + than to compare two
    things. After comparative adjectives we use than.
    My sister is younger than me. Australia is smaller than Brazil

    Spelling rules
    newer y
    easier
    quieter nicer
    bigger

    © Cambridge University Press 2016


    Can you remember the rules?
    • With longer adjectives (adjectives with two or more syllables), we
    more in front of it.
    don’t change the adjective – we put ______
    more expensive more dangerous

    • Some adjectives are irregular. This means they have a different


    comparative form.
     better
    good
     worse
    bad
     farther / further
    far
    © Cambridge University Press 2016
    QUIZ!
    1 The Pacific Ocean is smaller than the Atlantic Ocean. FALSE
    2 Lake Vostok in Antartica is deeper than Great Slave Lake in
    Canada. TRUE
    3 The Congo River in Zaire and Congo is wider than the Missouri
    River in North America. FALSE
    4 The Himalayas are longer than the Rockies. FALSE
    5 The forests in Brazil are bigger than the forests in Russia. TRUE

    © Cambridge University Press 2016


    Older, bigger, more!

    lo n g jo u
    li v e s b ig f a m ily o ld rney
    to s c h o o
    c l o s e s t to l
    g e ts u p
    sc h o o l e a rl y
    i m e y o un g
    l a t e sp e n d s t
    e d
    go e s to b o n t a b l e t ha s a b i
    g
    has pe family
    ts

    © Cambridge University Press 2016


    Acknowledgements
    The authors and publishers acknowledge the following sources of copyright material and are
    grateful for the permissions granted. While every effort has been made, it has not always been
    possible to identify the sources of all the material used, or to trace all copyright holders. If any
    omissions are brought to our notice, we will be happy to include the appropriate
    acknowledgements on reprinting and in the next update to the digital edition, as applicable.
    The publishers are grateful to the following for permission to reproduce copyright
    photographs and material:
    Slide 2 (TL): © Nando Machado / Alamy; (TR): © Meinzahn / Getty Images; (CL): © D. Hirst /
    Alamy; (CR): © Lilyana Vynogradova / Alamy; Slide 3 (BL): © 2happy / Alamy; (BR): ©
    mainpicture / Alamy; Slide 5 © Martin Willis / Getty Images.
    The publishers are grateful to the following illustrator:
    Christos Skaltsas (hyphen) Slides 2 & 3.
    Written by Emma Szlachta.
    © Cambridge University Press 2016

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