Comparison

Short Adjectives
ADJECTIVE Most adjectives small Adjectives ending in -e close 1 vowel + 1 consonant hot Adjectives ending in -y lovely COMPARATIVE +er smaller +r closer Double consonant hotter change y to i lovelier SUPERLATIVE theest the smallest the st the closest Double Consonant the hottest Change y to i the loveliest

Irregular
ADJECTIVE good bad far COMPARATIVE better worse further SUPERLATIVE the best the worst the furthest

A) Write the correct form of the adjectives in brackets. 1. Pink Floyd is _______________________(good) band ever. 2. Lima is _______________________(high) capital city in the world. 3. Sarah is _______________________(pretty) than Lisa. 4. Is Shanghai _______________________(big) city in the world? 5. Russia is _______________________ (large) than Canada. 6. This is _______________________ (bad) mark that I ever had. 7. What is _______________________ (far) that you ever travelled? 8. I think that Spanish is _______________________(easy) than French. 9. Penny is _______________________(fit) girl in the school. She works out every day. 10.Fifth Avenue is one of _______________________(wide) streets in New York.

11.Aswan, in Egypt, is _______________________(dry) inhabited place on the planet. 12.Mozambique is _______________________(poor) than Somalia. 13.France is _______________________(old) than Portugal. 14.Your performance was _______________________(good) today than yesterday. 15.57,8 C is _______________________(hot) temperature ever recorded. 16.Halloween is _______________________(scary) film I have ever seen. 17.Im exhausted! I cant walk any _______________________(far).

Answer key: 1. the best 2. the highest 3. prettier 4. the biggest 5. larger 6. the worst 7. the furthest 8. easier 9. the fittest 10.the widest 11.the driest 12.poorer 13.older 14.better

15.the hottest 16.the scariest 17.further