27 March 2009

Grammar: Comparative Adjectives (Part 2)

Ok, here’s the second part for Monday evening’s class!

If you want to make a comparative stronger to a greater degree, you can add the following before the adjective:

mucha lotfar

Study these examples from the four different categories of adjectives:

1. The Airbus 360 is much / a lot / far bigger than a Cessna airplane.
2. It is much / a lot / far rainier in the Amazon forest than in the Sahara desert.
3. His injuries after the car accident were much / a lot / far more serious than they previously thought.
4. The economic crisis is much / a lot / far worse than two years ago.

If you want to make a comparative stronger but to a lesser degree, you can add the following before the adjective:

a littleslightlya bit

Study these examples from the four different categories of adjectives:

1. The last flat we looked at was 90m² and this one is 88m². It is a little / slightly / a bit smaller.
2. That joke was only a little / slightly / a bit funnier than the last one you told!
3. I think this exercise was a little / slightly / a bit more difficult.
4. Haguenau is a little/ slightly/ a bit farther from Strasbourg than Bischwiller.

If you want to say that the two things are the same then you use: as……as

Study these examples. Note that the adjective doesn’t change!!

1. A mountain range as large as the Alps has been found under the Arctic ice.
2. Today is just as sunny as yesterday.
3. It is hard to choose which shirt I want but I can’t buy both. The blue shirt is as expensive as the black one.
4. They are both delicious. This Muscat is as good as that Chardonnay.

You can also state a comparative difference with: not as….as

For example:

1. The Queen of England isn’ as rich as J.K. Rowling ( = J.K. Rowling is richer than the Queen of England.)
2. Berlin isn’t as populated as Paris. ( = Paris is more populated than Berlin.)

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