When we compare things, people or even ideas we look at what makes them different from each other.

Comparative adjectives are used to show what quality one thing has more or less than the other. They normally come
before any other adjectives.
!Tip - It's a good idea to learn opposites (antonyms) when learning adjectives.
For example:
Tall / Short

The man on the left is taller than the man on the right.
The man on the right is shorter than the man on the left.
!Note - Have you noticed that when we are comparing two things like this we put than between the adjective and the
thing being compared.
Fast / Slow

A car is faster than a bicycle.

A bicycle is slower than a car.
For example:
Big / Small

The red bag is bigger than the blue bag.

The blue bag is smaller than the red bag.
Forming the comparative
The way you form the comparative from an adjective depends on the number of syllables and the spelling of the
adjective.
Form

Rule

Words of one syllable ending in 'e'.

For example

Add -r to the end of the word. wide - wider

For example:A motorway is wider than a road.

Words of one syllable, with one vowel and

one consonant at the end.

Double the consonant and

add -er to the end of the
word.

big - bigger

For example:-http://www.leunig.com.au/ - Reproduced with permission.

Words of one syllable, with more than one
vowel or more than one consonant at the

Add - er to the end of the

word.

high - higher

end.
Mount Everest is higher than Mount Snowdon.
Words of two syllables, ending in 'y'.

Change 'y' to 'i', and add -er

happy - happier
to the end of the word.

For example:Some people seem to be luckier than other people.

Words of two syllables or more, not
ending in 'y'.

Place 'more' before the

adjective.

beautiful more beautiful

For example:Arguably Rome is more beautiful than Paris.

!Warning - For every rule, there is at least one exception and there are also irregular adjectives that you need to
memorise as you come across them.
For example:

'good' becomes 'better'

'bad' becomes 'worse'

'far' becomes 'farther' or 'further'

!Warning - A lot of people write "then" instead of "than"- avoid it as it's simply not correct, and let's face it, you would
be marked down in a test or exam.
- See more at: http://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/adjectivecomp.html#sthash.3l8WOZi4.dpuf
Put the adjectives between brackets in the correct form
1. My brother has a (tidy) __________room than me.
2. Australia is (big) ______than England.
3. I'm (good) _________now than yesterday.
4. She's got (little) ____________-friends than you, but she doesn't care.
5. He thinks Chinese is (difficult)
language in the world
6. Valencia played (bad)
7. Cats are not (intelligent)
8. Show me (good)
9. (hot)

than Real Madrid yesterday.

as dogs.
restaurant downtown.

desert of all is the Sahara and it's in Africa.

10. Who is (talkative)

person in your family?

Pasado simple negativo

La estructura del pasado simple en forma negativa es:
Sujeto + did + not + verbo + ...
Esto se aplica tanto en los verbos regulares ('to work') como en los irregulares ('to go').

Forma larga

Forma corta

I did not work

You did not go
He did not work
We did not go
You did not work
They did not go

I didn't work
You didn't go
He didn't work
We didn't go
You didn't work
They didn't go

Ejemplos

I did not remember where I was

You didn't buy the ingredients
He did not speak Russian
They didn't write a letter to her
She did not wash the car
They didnt buy apples
Columbus did not reach America in 1789.
Ejercicios
Escribe las siguientes oraciones a la forma negativa.
1 I studied at this university for four years.
2 My family celebrated Thanksgiving Day last year.
3 After work we went to a party.
4Did you like your last dancing class?
?
5I loved Maths and Technical Drawing ten years ago.
6 Mary spent the best three months in her life in Ireland.
7 Was she happy in her job?
8 The boys took off the mudguards of their bicycles.
9 We saw some beautiful flowers.
10 They learnt to cook some traditional dishes.

No recordaba donde estaba

No compraste los ingredientes
l no hablaba ruso
No le escribieron una carta
No lav el coche
No compraron manzanas
Coln no lleg a Amrica e 1789.