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    FUERZAS MILITARES DE COLOMBIA

    EJÉRCITO NACIONAL

    ESCUELA MILITAR DE CADETES


    “GENERAL JOSÉ MARÍA CÓRDOVA”

    COMPARATIVES/SUPERLATIVES

    1 SYLLABLE ADJECTIVE
    ADJECTIVE COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIVE
    Short Shorter than The shortest
    Long Longer than The longest
    Fast Faster than The fastest
    Young Younger than The youngest

    2 OR MORE SYLLABLES ADJECTIVES


    Beautiful More beautiful than The most beautiful
    Modern More modern than The most modern
    Expensive More expensive than The most expensive
    Wonderful More wonderful than The most wonderful

    ADJECTIVES ENDING IN Y
    Happy Happier than The happiest
    Funny Funnier than The funniest
    Busy Busier than The busiest

    CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) ADJECTIVES


    Big Bigger than The biggest
    Hot Hotter than The hottest
    Thin Thinner than The thinnest
    Wet Wetter than The wettest

    IRREGULAR ADJECTIVES

    Good Better than The best


    Bad Worse than The worst
    Far Further than The furthest
    Little Less than The least

    ACTIVITIES
    1. Complete the sentences with comparatives.
    a. Lucy is ______older_____than me. (old)
    b. Your car is _______cheapur________ than mine. (cheap)
    c. My brother is two years ____younger______ than my sister. (young)
    d. My mom is ____funnier_____ than my dad. (funny)
    e. Dogs are ____more intelligent_____ than rabbits. (intelligent)
    f. This text is ___more difficult_______ than that one. (difficult)
    g. Mike is _____more popular_____ than Laura. (popular)
    h. An Iphone is ______better than____ than a Samsung (good)

    2. Complete the sentences with superlatives.


    a. It is the ____the oldest_____ tree in this park. ( old)
    b. I am the _____the tallest______ in my classroom. (tall)
    c. I think April is the ____the coldest______ month of the year (cold)
    d. I have the ____the heaviest______ heavy bag. (heavy)
    e. This building is the __the most beutiful_____in the town. (beautiful)
    f. Paris is the _____the most romantic_______ city in Europe. (romantic)
    g. That is the ___the most boring______ film now.(boring)
    h. This is the ___the best_______ translations (good)

    3. Complete the sentences with the correct comparative or superlative.

    a. Cats are ____more independent______ than dogs. (independent)


    b. What is ____the hottest_____ desert in Africa? (hot)
    c. Cali is _____smaller___________ than Bogota. (small)
    d. The new chairs are ____more comfortable_______ than the old ones.
    (comfortable)
    e. We are going to be ____busier than______than we were before (busy)
    f. David Beckham is one of _____the most famous____ soccer players in
    England. (famous)
    g. I study in _________the best_________ school in the country. (good)
    h. My cousin Claudia is _____the funniest_____ of the family. (funny)

    4. Look at the following picture and write comparatives and superlatives


    (ten sentences)
    comparatives

    Eduardo perez is stronger than agnes gru


    Scarlet is more intelligent than kevin
    Felinius is more dangerous than scarlet and eduardo
    Bob is shorter than kevin
    Eduardo is fatter than margo

    Superlative

    Felinius is the best of all the villains


    Agnes is the funniest in the gru family
    Gru is the most grumpy in the laboratory
    Bob is the weakest of all the minions
    Margo is the most naughty of the sisters

    EXTRA ACTIVITIES

    https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/grammar-practice/comparatives-and-superlatives

    https://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-exercise-grammar-comparatives-
    superlatives.php
    https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions/preint/grammar/grammar_04_012e?
    cc=co&selLanguage=en

    https://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=6009

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