Comparatives and superlatives with -er than and more … than

The comparative forms are used to compare two people, animals, things,
situations where the first mentioned is MORE than the second.

It is important to mention that once we have the comparative forms it is

necessary to follow these rules:

I- The first group is about the words that we only have to add the –er
ending to the simple form. Basically, it happens in most of the one
syllable adjectives and adverbs; ex:

Cheap High Poor Slow

Cold Long Proud Small
Dark Loud Rich Sweet
Hard New Short Tall
cool old sick Warm
Note: for the superlative form add -est

II- The second group is about the words that end in a consonant
followed by a vowel. The procedure consists in duplicating the last
consonant and adds –er. ex: big – bigger

Fat Sad wet

Hot thin
Note: for the superlative form add -est

III- The third group is about words ended in –y. In that case –y changes
to –i and add –er. ex: happy – happier.

Early Dirty Hungry Tasty

Easy Friendly Lucky Ugly
Angry Funny Noisy Windy
Busy Healthy Pretty
Cloudy Heavy Sunny
Note: for the superlative form add –est
 IV- It is about the short words that end in –e, and add –r.

ex: huge – huger.

Nice Late Fine

Large Brave Little
Note: for the superlative for add –st

V- It is about the words of two or more, place the word MORE . it is

important to highlight that those words don’t change.

Ex: the black suitcase is MORE expensive THAN the brown one.

Beautiful Unhappy Famous Nervous

Boring Delicious Worried Nutritious
Careful Different Handsome Popular
Correct Difficult Important Special
Dangerous Excited Interesting Terrible
Note: For the superlative form place the word MOST before the adjective-

VI- It is about the irregular comparatives. The irregularity of these

adjectives and adverbs is that their comparative forms vary little or
much. So, they can’t be predicted.

Simple form Comparative Superlative

Good better Best
well better best
Badly worse Worst
bad worse Worst
Far Farther /further Farthest / furthest
Less least least
Teacher: Danny Ramírez Matarrita