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Welcome to this tutorial.

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Today we're going to talk about degrees of adjectives comparatives.

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Let's get started.

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Remember that an adjective is a word or set of words that modifies In other words describes a noun or

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pronoun.

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Remember that adjectives may come before or after the word they modify.

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Have a look at the example over here.

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This is a cute cat.

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This cat is cute.

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Note that the word cute is an adjective and it is used to modify or describe the noun cat and in the

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first sentence note that the adjective cute comes before the noun cat and in the second after the noun

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cat

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now most adjectives can show a degree of quality or quantity by forming two degrees of comparison.

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The comparative and superlative now These degrees are formed from the positive degree which is the usual

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form of adjectives.

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Have a look at the examples below.

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Let's start with the positive degree for example.

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This is a tall building compared to form this building is taller than that one and the superlative.

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This is the tallest building now to form a comparative sentence.

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We use the following formula noun or pronoun as the subject plus verb plus a comparative adjective plus

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then plus noun or pronoun as the object of the sentence.

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Have a look at the example below.

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My room is larger than Jake's my room.

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Being the subject is verb Niger comparative adjective then takes the object remember that sometimes

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the second item of comparison can be admitted as in the example below.

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If you start working out you'll get thinner.

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No second item in the sentence.

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Now when an adjective ends with one syllable you simply add E R to form the comp..

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For example smart smarter and when an adjective ends with a vowel plus a consonant we don't the continent

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and then add e r.

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For example take bigger and when an adjective ends with a consonant plus a y we keep the consonant then

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change White ie and then add E R for example dry drier.

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Now when an adjective ends with two syllables we simply add e r or we add more for example happy happier

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tangled more tangled and when an adjective ends with three syllables you simply add more for example

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beautiful more beautiful.

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Now let's have a look at the following table where we can see how we can form the comparative and the

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super native forms of irregular adjectives positives good comparative form of good better superlative

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the best bad comparative for is superlative the worst far comparative farther further super native the

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farthest the furthest little comparative less superlative the least much or many comparative more superlative

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the most.