Comparison Of Adjectives

We can use adjectives to compare people, animals, things and places. There are three degrees of comparison:Positive Comparative Superlative short shorter shortest The positive is used to describe an object. Example : Surina is short. The comparative is used to compare two objects. Adding er and followed by than. Example : Surina is shorter than Faridah The superlative is used to compare more than two objects. Adding est after the word the. Example : Surina is the shortest in the group.

as _____as Positive

_____ than Comparative

the _____ Superlative Positive Comparative Superlative

big
busy clean clever dirty easy fast happy heavy lazy long noisy old

bigger
busier cleaner cleverer dirtier easier faster happier heavier lazier longer noisier older

biggest
busiest cleanest cleverest dirtiest easiest fastest happiest heaviest laziest longest noisiest oldest

poor
pretty proud rich ripe slow strong sweet tall thick ugly warm young

poorer
prettier prouder richer riper slower stronger sweeter taller thicker uglier warmer younger

poorest
prettiest proudest richest ripest slowest strongest sweetest tallest thickest ugliest warmest youngest

as _____as Positive

_____ than Comparative

the _____ Superlative

beautiful
careful cheerful dangerous difficult expensive famous handsome helpful interesting polite valuable

more beautiful
more careful more cheerful more dangerous more difficult more expensive more famous more handsome more helpful more interesting more polite more valuable

most beautiful
most careful most cheerful most dangerous most difficult most expensive most famous most handsome most helpful most interesting most polite most valuable

as _____as Positive

_____ than
Comparative

the _____
Superlative

good bad little many

better worse less more

best worst least most

Practice 1. Underline the correct words. 1. Laila is (slim, slimmer, slimmest) than Lily. 2. The mushroom soup is as (tastier, tasty, tastiest) as the soup my mother makes. 3. This car is (small, smaller, smallest) than that one. 4. Encik Zaini is the (kindest, kind, kinder) man I have ever met. 5. Zairi is (oldest, older, old) than me. 6. Mount Kinabalu is the (high, higher, highest) mountain in Malaysia. 7. You are such a (good, better, best) boy, said Puan Aini to Bala. 8. He is the (clumsy, clumsier, clumsiest) boy in the school. 9. It is not nice to make fun of people who are ( fatter, fat, fattest). 10.This dress is expensive, but that one is even (more expensive, expensive, most expensive) than this.

11.Faizah is (tall, taller, tallest) than her best friend, Nisya.

12. This is the (good, better, best) chocolate cake I have ever tasted, said Mus to his neighbour. 13. Kevin wakes up (early, earlier, earliest) than his brothers every morning. 14. A zebra cannot run as (fast, faster, fastest) as a cheetah. 15. Amy is the (short, shorter, shortest) pupil in the class. 16. This sum is (easiest, easier, easy) than that one. 17. Faizal can sing (good, best, better) than Chong and Ramu. 18. Jaswant is the (fast, faster, fastest) runner in my school. 19. The hipopotamus is the (large, larger, largest) animals than a tiger. 20. Raihah is the (helpful, more helpful, most helpful) girls of all.