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The comparison of adjectives and adverbs is used to compare things, people or actions, expressing the equalities or inequalities between them.
The comparison can be formed by using adjectives or adverbs.
When we want to compare one thing with another we use the word than after the adjective or adverb.
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The comparison of adjectives or adverbs is used to compare two or more things, people or actions, expressing the equalities or inequalities between them.
When we make a comparison using adjectives or adverbs, we start with the subject and the verb followed by a comparative adjective or an adverb followed by than and an object.
The form of the comparative adjective or adverb differs according to the number of syllables and the suffix of the adjective.
Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs
Comparison of Adjective and Adverb
Comparison of Adjective and Adverb (Comparison of Adjective)
- (Positive Degree) Long thin clever
- (Comparative Degree) longer thinner cleverer
- (Superlative Degree) longest thinnest cleverest
(Positive)
(Positive Degree)
- (comparison of Equality)
- (Comparison of Inequality)
- as…as
Your house is as large as mine
This pencil is as long as that one.
He speaks English as well as his fiend.
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She drives as carefully as her husband.
(As… as Adjective Adverb)
1.2 as + much (many) + (un) countable noun + as
She has as much money as her friend.
In Paris I have as many friends as you.
1.3 The same + noun + as
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This bicycle is the same price as the none.
Prathoom is the same age as Ladda.
The Same
My pen the same as yours.
The same
They are the same height.
These shirts are the same size.
To be + like
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I am like my father.
Your voice is like Sayan Sanya’s.
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1.5 to be + alike
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Our ideas are alike.
Their opinions are alike.
1.6 to be + similar to
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My pencil is similar to yours.
Your plan is similar to my plan (or “mine”)
Same, Similar, alike
The same
Our shoes are Similar.
Alike.
The same
Jim’s rubber and Jane’s are Similar
Alike
2.1 Not so (as) …as
His report is not so long as mine.
He doesn’t drive so fast as he did yesterday.
Your house is not so large as my house (mine)
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1.5 to be + alike
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Our ideas are alike.
Their opinions are alike.
1.6 to be + similar to
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My pencil is similar to yours.
Your plan is similar to my plan (or “mine”)
Same, Similar, alike
The same
Our shoes are Similar.
Alike.
The same
Jim’s rubber and Jane’s are Similar
Alike
2.1 Not so (as) …as
His report is not so long as mine.
He doesn’t drive so fast as he did yesterday.
Your house is not so large as my house (mine)
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She can’t speak English so fluently as her friend.
2.2 Not so + much (many) + (un) countable noun + as
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I don’t have so much money as you.
Hens don’t have so many legs as buffaloes.
There is not so much water in this glass as in that one.
Not so….as not as……as not so…..as
I don’t have as much ink as you.
This chair is not as big as that one.
He doesn’t speak French as well as you.
(Comparative)
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Taller than, bigger than, more beautiful than, etc.
1)
You are taller than I.
She is shorter than you.
Her house is larger than his.
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2)
More
Pensri is more beautiful than he friend.
Her car is more expensive than yours.
3) a little much (very much)
Your home work is a little easier than mine.
He is a little taller than I.
Iron is much cheaper than gold.
Magaret is very much more beautiful than her sister.
4) of the two, between the two, between Jack and Jim, etc. “the + “
Of the two, John is the taller.
Between David and Billy, David is the more friendly.
I am the cleverer of the two.
Seri is the more industrious of the two boys.
5) (comparative Degree)
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More + plural noun + than
Uncountable noun
Fewer + plural noun + Than
Less + Uncountable + Than
There are more students in this room than in that room.
There is more rain in July than in May.
I ate fewer mangoes than my sister this morning.
There is less traffic at Bangsue than at Yaowarat.
6) (Adjective) er than
Junior to senior to
Anterior to posterior to
Prior to superior to
Interior to etc.
I am junior to him.
My wife is senior to me.
That event is posterior to this one.
His strength is inferior to yours.
7)
You are two centimetres taller than I.
(You are taller than I two centimetres.)
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She is five years younger than I.
( She is younger than I five years.)
Suchat ran two metres farther than his friend.
( Suchat ran farther than his friend two metres.)
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8)
Bangkok is more populous than any other province in Thailand.
Suthep is cleverer than any other student in the class.
9) Comparative + subject + verb, + the + comparative + subject + verb
The more you learn, the wiser you will get.
The longer she waited, the angrier she became.
(Superlative)
1)
The Chao Praya is the longest of all rivers in Thailand.
Samart is the tallest boy in his classroom.
2) The most
She wants to buy the most luxurious car from this company.
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Apasara is the most beautiful lady in the world.
He drove his car the most carefully of all drivers in the town.
3)
I have the most friends in Chiengmai.
She has the least money on her today.
There are the fewest people coming to the fair.
4)
This diamond ring is the one of the most expensive I have ever seen.
His essay is one of the longest submitted for the competition.
5) Most (= very)
This is a most valuable coin.
Pannai is most helpful.
6) Most (the majority) the
Most people want to be rich.
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1) est :-
Tall taller tallest
Short shorter shortest
Small smaller smallest
Young younger youngest
Old older oldest
Long longer longest
Great greater greatest
Hard harder hardest
Sweet sweeter sweetest
Etc. ect ect.
2) er est:-
Positive Comparative Superlative
Fat fatter fattest
Thin thinner thinnest
Hot hotter hottest
Big bigger biggest
Sad sadder saddest
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Wet wetter wettest
Ect ect ect
3) e r st:-
Positive Comparative Superlative
Brave braver bravest
Large larger largest
Wise wiser wisest
Fine finer finest
True truer truest
Ripe riper ripest
Ect. Ect ect
4)y y y I er est :-
Positive Comparative Superlative
Happy happier happiest
Merry merrier happiest
Dry drier driest
Sly slier sliest
Shy shyer shyest
5) y y y I er est :-
Positive Comparative Superlative
Gay gayer gayest
Grey greyer greyest
6) er re le ow er est :-
Positive Comparative Superlative
Clever cleverer cleverest
Bitter bitterer bitterest
Feeble feebler feeblest
Simple simpler simplest
Sincere sincerer sincerest
Narrow narrower narrowest
Shallow shallower shallowest
Noble nobler noblest
Etc ect ect
7) more most:-
Positive Comparative Superlative
Fertile more fertile most fertile
Honest more honest most honest
Selfish more selfish most selfish
Fluent more fluent most fluent
Useful more useful most useful
Ect ect ect.
8) er est more most :-
Positive Comparative Superlative
Cruel crueler cruelest
More cruler most cruel
Quiet quieter quietest
More quiet most quiet
Slender slenderer slenderest
More slender most slender
Common commoner commonest
More common most common
Pleasant pleasanter pleasantest
More pleasant most pleasant (541)
9) more most :-
Positive Comparative Superlative
Difficult more difficult most difficult
Diligent more diligent most diligent
Beautiful more beautiful most beautiful
Dangerous more dangerous most dangerous
Familiar more familiar most familiar
Important more important most important
Intelligent more intelligent most intelligent
Suitable more suitable most suitable
Wonderful more wonderful most wonderful
Valuable more valuable most valuable
Etc etc ect.
10) more most :-
Positive Comparative Superlative
Bored more bored most bored
Tiring more tiring most tiring
Tired more tired most tired
Interesting more interesting most interesting
Etc. ect ect
11) Positive Comparative Superlative e rest more mostn:-
Positive Comparative Superlative
Good better best
Bad worse worst
Much, many more most
Few fewer fewest
Little less least
Far farther, further furthest (542)
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(Comparison of Adverb)
(Comparison of Adverb)
- (Equality)
- (Comparative)
- (Superlative)
1.1
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He walks as quickly as his friend.
Tony plays tennis as well as Billy.
Mana spoke French as fluently as his sister.
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(Inequality)
Tonight the stars don’t shine so brightly as they did last night.
He doesn’t drive so carefully as I.
This dog doesn’t run so fast as that one.
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Comparative Adverb + than…
He writes more beautiful than his friend .
I work harder than you.
The horse runs more quickly than the buffalo
She drives more slowly than I.
Superlative Adverb :-
Of the three boys, Daeng played the piano fastest.
Narong studies hardest in his class.
Sri speaks clearly, Porn speaks more clearly than Sri. Pin Speaks most clearly.
1) er est :-
Positive Comparative Superlative
Hard harder hardest
Fast faster fastest
Loud louder loudest
Near nearer nearest
Etc etc ect.
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2) more:
Positive Comparative Superlative more slowly
slowly more slowly most slowly
quickly more quickly most quickly
wisely more wisely most wisely
kindly more kindly most kindly
sweetly more sweetly most sweetly
early Adjective rly early-earlier-earliest:
Positive Comparative Superlative
Well better best
Badly worse worst
Much more most
Little less least
Far father, further furtherest
(Comparative Adverb)
Pronoun) than than (Subjective Case) (Objective Case):
He loves you more than I. (subject)
He loves you more than me .(objective)
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(me) (objective) love you He loves you more than he loves me .
She detests you more than I.
(=She detests you more than I detest you.)
You like him more than you like me .
(= You like him more than you like me .)
Rewrite these sentence using the words given in brackets
- Her face is similar to her mother’s faces. (alike)
- Prayoon is 5 foot tall. Prayong is 5 foot tall . (the same ……….as)
- Magaret is …………………(heavy) Elizabeth. (as….as)
- This month isn’t…………..(hot) is usually is.(so….as)
- You earn 5,000 bath a month. I earn 5,000 bath a month. (as……as)
- The furniture in this room is ……………(expensive ) the furniture in that room . (as….as)
- The colour of my house is blue . The colour of your house is blue .(like)
- Sak hasn’t read…………..(many books ) ladda has .(so…..as)
1.Her face and her mother’s are alike.
- Prayon is the same height as Prayong.
3.Marget is as heavy as Elizabeth.
- This month isn’t so hot as it usually is.
- You earn a month as much as I.
- The furniture in this room is as expensive as the furniture in that room.
- The colour of my house is like the colour of yours.
8.Sak hasn’t read so many books as ladda has.
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Write the correct comparative or superlative form of the adjective or adverb in parent
1.Malai is (beautiful). ………………girl in this room
- Betty is (charming)… ……than Nancy.
- He drove his car (slowly). …….than I did.
4.The Englishman is (friendly)… …….than a European.
- He is (selfish)…………… person that I have ever seen.
6 Helen writes (quickly)… ……….among her friends.
- Your typewriter is (well made). .. …………the one he sold me.
- She found nursing (tiring) .working in the office.
- That event is (posterior). ……….this one.
- The wife is generally (anterior) ………..the husband.
- Malai is the most beautiful girl in this room.
- Betty is more charming than Nancy.
- He drove his car more slowly than I did.
- The Englishman is more friendly than a European.
- He is the most selfish person that I have ever seen.
- Helen writes the most quickly among her friends.
- Your typewriter is better made than the one he sold me.
- She found nursing more tiring than working in the office.
9 That event is posterior to this one. The wife is generally anterior to the husband.