For video lesson please click the link below, https://youtu.be/HLNIFi6oLhM Adjectives | Degree of Comparison #englishgrammar #englishgrammer In this lesson, I have discussed about the degree of comparison of adjectives, the rules and grammatical structures for using positive degree, comparative degree and superlative degree. The forms of adjectives in positive, superlative and comparative have also been discussed with rules and exceptions. For the video about the function, the position and the order of using adjectives in a sentence, please click the link below https://youtu.be/b4ZMbqZmMI8 For all the sentences related video (like subject predicate, subject object complement), please click the link below, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8-qDf33uOjBbanTtTCN_bfQR6xAIQw2y For parts of speech in English grammar please click the link below, https://youtu.be/10Smya65uQI For types of noun or classification of noun in English grammar please click the link below, https://youtu.be/4F8nUNcGooc For pronoun in English grammar please click the link below, https://youtu.be/F83hNk9-zY8 For articles lesson, please click the link below https://youtu.be/rmTTH-2ONEw For tenses please click the link below, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8-qDf33uOjDUk6FvsvhuAoGPik9qgOOs For article please click the link below, https://youtu.be/rmTTH-2ONEw For voice change video, please clicl the link below, https://youtu.be/-tPZUxvtmks For narration change that is direct and indirect speech please click the link below, https://youtu.be/dzIyk4GsEMs

1. Adjectives
Degree of
comparison
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2. Let’s see the pictures

3. We use comparison to show
similarity and identity, difference,
equality, inequality.
Ana is cleverer than Sujan.
With gradable adjectives, three types
of comparison are possible.
To a higher degree To the same degree To a lower degree
Ana is the cleverest student in the class.
Ana is as clever as John.
This problem is less difficult than the previous one.

4. Comparative adjectives
We use comparison to show
My hands are as cold as ice.
He is much older than her.
I have less money than you.
Superiorty
Inferiorty
Eequality

5. Degree of Comparison
There are the three Degree of
Comparison.
positive comparative superlative

6. Positive degree
Comparison of same degree is
expressed by as.. adjective…as
Anna is as tall as her sister.
subject verb as adjective as object

7. Comparative
degree
Usually used to compare two
things.
Add –er with adjective + than .
He is taller than me.

8. superlative degree
More than two is compared
Add –the + adjective + est
She is the cleverest student in the
class.
Mt Everest is the highest peak in
the world

9. Comparative and superlative
adjectives rules
old
tall
One syllable or two adjectives comparative and superlative ending in
–er , - est
adjective Superlative
-est
cheap
oldest
tallest
cheapest
Comparative
-er
taller
cheaper
older

10. Comparative and superlative
adjectives rules
late
nice
Adjectives ending in –e have the
comparative and superlative ending
in –r , -st
adjective
Superlative
-st
latest
nicest
Comparative
-r
nicer
later

11. Comparative and superlative
adjectives rules
fat
big
One vowel + one consonant =
double consonant
adjective
Superlative
-est
fattest
biggest
Comparative
-er
bigger
fatter

12. Comparative and superlative
adjectives rules
happy
easy
Two syllable adjectives ending in
–y have –ier, and -est
adjective
Superlative
-iest
happiest
easiest
Comparative
-ier
easier
happier

13. Comparative and superlative
adjectives rules
narrow
clever
Two syllable adjectives have unstressed vowel ending can have –er
and –est ending
adjective
Superlative
-est
narrowest
cleverest
Comparative
-er
cleverer
narrower
quiet quieter quietest

14. Irregular comparison
good
bad
adjective Superlative
best
worst
Comparative
worse
better
little less least
Much/many more most

15. Longer adjectives------ more and most is used
intelligent
beautiful
adjective Superlative
most intelligent
most beautiful
Comparative
more beautiful
more intelligent
Unhappy---unhappier----unhappiest
good-looking—better-looking-best-looking
Well-known—better known—best known

16. more, most with short adjectives
The road is getting more and more steep
a comparative is not followed
immediately by than
He is more lazy than stupid
She is more like her mother
Compare two description
Real , right, wrong and like always
have more and most
NOT….liker her mother.
NOT…He is lazier than
stupid.

17. Pronouns after than
Informal style ------ object pronoun
is used.
She is older than me.
Formal style subject pronoun is used with verb.
She is older than I(am).

18. Preposition after superlative
Do not use of with a singular word referring to a place or group.
I’m the happiest man in the world.
She is the fastest player in the team.
But of can be used before plurals and before singular quantifiers like lot, bunch.
NOT…of the world.
NOT…of the team.
She is the fastest player of them all. He is the best of the lot.

19. Lets do
Change the degree of comparison without changing the meaning.
1. Lead is the heaviest of all metal.
2. He is as wiser as Solomon.
Fill in the blanks with proper form.
1. He is the ______ friend I have (good).
2. Silver is ______ than gold. (light)
3. Who is the ______ boy in the class? (good)

20. Thank
You
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