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Intermediate Exam

English Exam

·    El examen de Inglés se aplicará el próximo jueves 12 de diciembre

·      Estudiar:

1.   Comparatives and Superlatives

2.   Vocabulario de Navidad que está en el cuaderno

 Recuerden estudiar los significados en ingles del Vocabulario de Navidad

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Not as...as

Comparatives Using not as…as

                       The white wine is not as expensive as the red wine.

You already learned how to compare two things by using comparative adjectives:

1. Add -ER (taller, older, faster)
2. Add -ER and double the final consonant (bigger, hotter, thinner)
3. Remove -Y and add -IER (easier, friendlier, prettier)
4. Add “more” or “less” to long words (more expensive, less popular, more interesting)
5. Irregular comparatives (better, farther, worse)

There’s another structure that you can use:

not as (adjective) as

• Running is not as fast as biking.
  = Biking is faster than running.
• Canada is not as hot as Ecuador.
  = Ecuador is hotter than Canada.
• Helen is not as friendly as her husband.
  = Helen’s husband is friendlier than she is.
• Movies are not as interesting as books.
  = Books are more interesting than movies.
• Playing video games is not as good as exercising.
  = Exercising is better than playing video games.

Remember that in this structure, we don’t use -ER or “more” with the adjective.

• This shirt isn’t as prettier as that blouse.
  This shirt isn’t as pretty as that blouse.
• Last week’s test wasn’t as worse as the previous one.
  Last week’s test wasn’t as bad as the previous one.

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Adjectives

Comparative and Superlative Adjectives

Positive Form

·         Use the positive form of the adjective if the comparison contains one of the following expressions:

1.   as … as

x. Example: Jane is as tall as John.

2.   not as … as

               x. Example: John is not as tall as Arnie.

Comparative Form and Superlative Form (-er/-est)

• one-syllable adjectives (clean, new, cheap)
• two-syllable adjectives ending in -y or -er (easy, happy, pretty, dirty, clever)

positive form	comparative form	superlative form
clean	cleaner	(the) cleanest

Exceptions in spelling when adding -er / -est

• silent ‘e’ is dropped

Example: late-later-latest

• final ‘y’ after a consonant becomes i

Example: easy-easier-easiest

• final consonant after short, stressed vowel is doubled

Example: hot-hotter-hottest

Comparative Form and Superlative Form (more/most)

• adjectives of three or more syllables (and two-syllable adjectives not ending in -y/-er)

positive form	comparative form	superlative form
difficult	more difficult than	The most difficult

Comparative Form and Superlative Form (irregular comparisons)

positive form	comparative form	superlative form
good	better	best
bad / ill	worse	worst
little (amount)	less	least
little (size)	smaller	smallest
much / many	more	most
far (place + time)	further	furthest
far (place)	farther	farthest
late (time)	later	latest
late (order)	latter	last
near (place)	nearer	nearest
near (order)	-	next
old (people and things)	older	oldest
old (people)	elder	eldest