Comparative Forms / Superlative Forms

GRAMMAR COMPARISON

Geralmente adjetivos e advérbios de uma ou duas sílabas formam o comparativo e o superlativo acrescentando-se:
ER / EST:
Strong – stronger - strongest
Roy is stronger than me.
young – younger - youngest
Roy is the younger person I know.

•Mas palavras terminadas em FUL, OUS, RE, ING, recebem
MORE / MOST:
More hopeful – most obscure
most curious – more charming
more surprised

She is more charming than her sister.
He is the most curious boy I know.

•Observe as alterações de grafia:

E: large – larger – largest
wide – wider – widest

Y: happy – happier – happiest
shy – shier - shiest

Consoante + vogal + consoante:
Hot – hotter – hottest
Big – bigger - biggest

This room is larger than the kitchen.
She is the happiest girl in our group.
Today is hotter than yesterday.

Formas irregulares

•Good – better – best
•Far – farther – farthest [further - furthest ]
•Bad – worse – worst
•Much / many – more – most

That was the worst day of my life.
You live far from school but I live farther.
Yesterday was the worst day of my life.

Contruções especiais

Is getting colder and colder.
(Está ficando cada vez mais frio)
She is getting more and more beautiful.
(Ela está ficando cada vez mais bonita)
The hotter, the better.
(Quanto mais quente melhor)
The more difficult, the more fascinating.
(Quanto mais difícil, mais fascinante)