Degrees of Comparison

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 535.

UNIT 6

short words: -er, -est	big – bigger – the biggest thin – thinner – the thinnest short – shorter – the shortest
words ending in – y: -ier, -iest	easy – easier – the easiest happy – happier – the happiest heavy – heavier – the heaviest
long words: more, the most	important – more important – the most important general – more general – the most general
both ways for some adjectives (stupid, gentle, friendly, cruel, common, pleasant, quiet, shallow)	simpler – the simplest simple more simple- the most simple narrower – the narrowest narrow more narrow – the most narrow cleverer – the cleverest clever more clever – the most clever
real right wrong	real - morereal - the most real right - moreright - the mostright wrong - more wrong - the mostwrong
a bit/ a littlе + comparative (немного)	a bit	bigger older more difficult	than
much/ a lot/ far + comparative (намного, гораздо)	It's much cheaper. – Это намного дешевле. The film is far better than the book. – Фильм гораздо лучше, чем книга.
By far + superlative (гораздо)	He is by far the best student in the class. – Он гораздо лучше, чем все остальные студенты.