Exercício de Inglês - Comparative Adjectives

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Good - better
Bad - worse
Far - farther
Comparative
Adjectives
- Comparative adjectives compare one person or thing with
another and enable us to say whether a person or thing has
more or less of a particular quality:
Josh is taller than his sister.
I’m more interested in music than sport.
Big cars that use a lot of petrol are less
popular now than twenty years ago.
- One-syllable adjectives (big, cold, hot, long, nice, old, tall).
To form the comparative, we use the -er suffix with adjectives
of one syllable:
- One-syllable adjectives which are irregular.
Some one-syllable adjectives have irregular forms, so they
present a new comparative adjective:
Tall + er
Cold + er
Hot + t + er
Long + er
Rewinding
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Interesting - more/less interesting
Complicated - more/less complicated
Expensive - more/less expensive
Source: Cambridge Disctionary
- Two-syllable adjectives
Two-syllable adjectives ending in -y change y to i and take the -
er  ending:
- Longer adjectives
Adjectives of three or more syllables form the comparative
with more/less:
Busy - busier
Funny - funnier
Clever - cleverer
Simple - simpler
EXERCISE
1) Fill the blank spaces with the correct comparative adjectives.
a) Jake's room is ____________ than Larry's room. (small)
b) The blue car is ___________ than the black car. (nice)
c) This exercise is ______________ than that one. (boring)
d) His pullover is _____________ than his jeans. (dark)
e) Susan's hair is _____________ than my hair. (long)
f) George is __________________ than Robert. (funny)
g) My result in the test was ___________ than Harry's. (good)
h) Gold is ______________________ than silver. (expensive)
i) Christine is _________________ than Alice. (smart)
j) Football is ___________________ than handball. (popular)
Source: English-hifen.de
Alessandra Oliveira (Passei Direto)