Comparative and Superlative

Do you add er than/the est with
adjectives that have one syllable or more?

Tall, fat, small, slow

Are you taller than your father?

Who is the tallest person in your
family?

Do we have some two syllable adjectives
with specific endings that also use er/the est?

Clever: cleverer than – the cleverest

Narrow = narrower than – the narrowest

Simple = simpler than – the simplest

Quiet = quieter than – the quietest

Is a fox cleverer than a lion?

Who is the cleverest person you know?

Can these adjectives have both er/the
est and more/the most?

Clever: cleverer than – the cleverest or
more clever than – the most clever

Narrow = narrower than – the narrowest
or more narrow than – the most narrow

Simple = simpler than – the simplest or
more simple than – the most simple

Quiet = quieter than – the quietest or
more quiet than – the most quiet

Is science more simple for you than
maths?

What is/was the most simple subject you
at school?

Do we double the last consonant when the
last syllable has a long vowel sound or a short vowel sound?

Can you give examples of short vowel
sound?

A E I O U

Bat Best Bit Bot But

Fat = fatter than – the fattest

Thin = thinner than – the thinnest

Vs.

Slow = slower than – the slowest

Are you thinner than your best
friend?

Who is the thinnest person you know?

Vs.

Are you slower or faster than your best
friend?

Who is the slowest or fastest person you
know?

What do you replace the Y at the end of
the longer adjectives with for the comparative and the superlative?

Happy = happier than – the happiest

Busy = busier that – the busiest

Are you happier than you were
yesterday?

Who is the happiest person you know?

Are you busier today than
yesterday?

When are you normally the busiest during
the week?

Do we use more and the most for
adjectives that have two or more syllables?

Beautiful = more beautiful than – the
most beautiful

Useful = more useful than – the most
useful

 Interesting = more interesting than

Is a laptop more useful than a phone?

What is the most useful thing you have?

Do we use more and the most with all
adverbs except hard and fast which are irregular?

(There may be more irregular adverbs,
but they are not in common usage?

Slowly = more slowly than – the most
slowly

Quickly = more quickly than (not
quicklier than) – the most quickly  (not the
quickliest)

Carefully = more carefully than – the
most carefully

Wonderfully = more wonderfully than –
the most wonderfully

Who can run more quickly than you in
your family?

Who can run faster than you in your
family?

Who can run the most quickly in your
family and friends?

Who can run the fastest in your family
and friends?

What are the comparative and superlative
forms of the following irregular adjectives: good, bad, much, little, far, much/many/lots?

Many – more than – the most

Much = more that – the most

Little – less than – the least amount of
(uncountable)

Few – fewer than – the fewest
(countable)

Far = further than (general)/farther
than (only for distance) – the furthest/the farthest

Does your best friend have less patience
than you?

Who has the least amount of patience in
your family and friends?

Do you have fewer friends than your
brother?

Who has the fewest freiends in your
family and friends?

I can’t write any quicker.

Have you noticed something strange in
the structure with the word quicker?

Please, focus on the form only not the
position.

Is the form the adjective form or the
adverb form?

Now, focus on the position.

 Is the position the adjective position or the adverb
position?

Is the adjective form being used in the
adverb position in the structure with the word ANY?

Shall we call this an exceptional usage
of the adjective in this adverb position?

Big – bigger than – the biggest

Tall – taller than – the tallest

Quick – quicker than – the quickest
 

Quickly – more quickly than –
the most quickly

Slowly – more slowly than – the most
slowly

Quietly – more quietly than – the most
quietly

https://www.englishgrammar.org/comparative-superlative-exercise/

https://test-english.com/grammar-points/a2/comparative-superlative-adjectives-adverbs/

https://test-english.com/grammar-points/b1/comparative-superlative-adjectives-adverbs/

https://test-english.com/grammar-points/b1-b2/the-the-comparatives/

https://test-english.com/grammar-points/b1-b2/adjectives-without-noun/

https://test-english.com/grammar-points/b1-b2/participle-adjectives/

https://test-english.com/grammar-points/b1/ed-ing-adjectives-adjectives-verbs/

https://test-english.com/grammar-points/b1-b2/adjective-order/