Unit 70 COMPARISIONS

Grammar

COMPARISIONS OF ADJECTIVES (cont.)

The Superlative Form

comparison: using comparatives and superlatives

Comparison: comparative and superlative adjectives

A. Of Superiority

1 Short Adjectives:
The Adj-est

Bill is twenty. John is twenty-two. Tom is twenty-five.
Bill is the youngest of all.
Tom is the oldest of all.

nice    – the nicest.
large    – the largest.

the thinnest, the fattest…

the heaviest, the noblest, the quietest, the narrowest, the cleverest

Good    – the best.
Bad    – the worst.

2 Long Adjectives
The most + Adj.

The Royal Britol Hotel is the most comfortable.
That’s the most interesting film I’ve ever seen.

B. Of Inferiority
The least + Adj

That book is the least expensive