Monday, 11 July 2011 Comparison (1) cheaper, more expensive etc.

Look at these examples: How shall we travel? By car or by train? Lets go by car. Its cheaper Dont go by train. Its more expensive. Cheaper and more expensive are comparatives forms. After comparatives you can use than y Its cheaper to go by car than train. y Going by train is more expensive than going by car. The comparative form is er or more.
We use er for short words (one Syllabe): Cheap Large cheaper larger fast thin faster thinner We use morefor longer words syllables or more): More modern more serious More expensive more comfortable We use more. For adverbs that end in Ly: more slowly more seriously more quietly more carefully also: more often but: earlier (not more early) (two

We also use er for two syllable words that End in y (-y -ire): Lucky luckier early earlier Easy easier pretty prettier

Compare these examples: y Youre older than me. y The exam was quite easy easier than we expected. y Can you walk a bit faster? y Id like to have a bigger car. Las t night I went to bed earlier than usual.

y Youre more patient than me. y The exam was quite difficult more difficult than we expected. y Can you walk a bit more slowly? y Id like to have a more reliable car. y I dont play tennis much these days. I used to play more often.

You can use er or more. With some two- syllable adjectives, especially: Quiet clever narrow shallow simple

Its too noisy here. Can we go somewhere quieter / quieter?

These adjectives and adverbs have irregular comparatives forms: Good/well better: y The garden looks better since you tidied it up. y I know him well probably better than anybody else. Bad/badly worse: y Is your headache better? No, its worse. y He did very badly in the exam worse than expected. Far further (farther): y Its a long walk from here to the station further than I thought. (Orfarther

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3. Read the situations and complete the sentences. Use a comparative form. a. Yesterday the temperature was nine degrees. Today its only six degrees.

It colder today than it was ye sterday. .

b. The journey takes four hours by car and five hours by train. It takes.. c. Dave and I went for a run. I ran ten kilometres. Dave stopped after eight kilometres. I ran d. hris and Joe both did badly in the exam. hris got 20% but Joe only got 15%. Joe did. e. I expected my friends to arrive at home at about 4 oclock. In fact they arrived at 2.30. My friends f. You can go by bus or by train. The buses run every 30 minutes. The trains run every hour. The buses g. e were very busy at work today. ere not usually as busy as that.

It colder today than it was yeste rday.

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10. Do you think English is than rench? difficult) 11. e eats a lot he getting .and(fat)

12. I think that girls are .than boys. (mature) 13. 14. 15. ot many people are ..than he is. (dishonest) is face was getting ..and . (red) e was .than I had ever seen him before. (angry)

16. Big cars are ..than small ones. (comfortable) 17. I think the book is .than the film. (interesting) 18. ould I have aroom, please? (big)

19. My exam was .than I had thought. (bad) 20. The road becomes..after three or four miles. (narrow)

 

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