Comparing.
Choisissez la bonne réponse
Comparatifs de supériorité (+...) |
comparatifs d'égalité (aussi .... que) |
comparatifs d'infériorité (- .... que) |
adj. 1 syllabe ou 2 syllabes si terminé en y (sad / happy...)
adj+er
adj en y=>ier |
adj longs (2 syllabes et plus) (modern/comfortable...) |
adj irréguliers
good=>better
bad=>worse
far=>farther |
as adjectif as |
less adjectif than |
Pater is richer than Betty
but she is happier than him
He is bigger than last year |
Potatoes are more fattening than vegetables |
Her cooking is worse than my mother's |
Fast food is as tasty as traditional food |
A is less intelligent than me! |
Pour traduire"bien plus", on ajoute
much : It's much easier than I thought (c'est
bien plus facile que je ne pensais) |
Devant un nom, on met "more"
(ex : plus de sucre : more sugar) |
Les superlatifs |
superlatifs de supériorité (le + ....) |
superlatifs d'infériorité (le - .....) |
adjectifs courts (1 syllabe ou deux si terminé
en y)
the adjectif+est (the saddest; the
happiest, the nicest)
|
les adjectifs longs
the most +adjectif
The most comfortable |
les adjectifs irréguliers
good=>the best
bad=>the worst
far=>the farthest |
the least +adjectif
The least modern |
My brother's cassette-recorder is loud but my friend's is
- much louder
- the loudest
The ...................... mammal in the world is the blue whale.
- biggest
- bigger
Mount Everest is ................ in the world.
- the tallest mountain
- taller than
Paris is .............. than London.
- smaller
- the smallest
- as small
Heathrow, which is in England, is ............. airport in the world.
- the busiest
- busy
- busier
Mount Everest is ................ Mount Blanc
- the highest
- higher than
- as high
The Amazon is ....................... the Seine.
- longer than
- the longest
- as long
The .............. river in the world is the Nile.
- longest
- longer
- long
He's probably .................... politician of all times.
- the better
- the best
- better
- the most
That's .................. surprising thing I've ever seen.
- more
- the more
- most
- the most
She's much ................... polite than she used to be.
- most
- more
- the most
That's ................... horrible accident that could happen to her.
- the most
- most
- the more
- more
I guess she was ................ as she used to be years ago.
- more convincing
- as convincing
- convincing
That was ................ disaster in history.
- the bigger
- big
- the biggest
- all the bigger
Do you think the Palladium is ....................... as the Olympia?
- larger
- the largest
- the larger
- as large
This boy is the ...................... intelligent boy in our class. Everybody admires him.
- least
- most
- much
- best
They both look nice but I don't think Ann is ................ nice as Maud.
- as
- more
- less
- much
She thinks she's ............. prettiest girl of all.
- the
- as
- much
- more
She bought the ..................... expensive of the two dresses.
- least
- less
- much
She's very talkative. I think she talks much more .............. I do.
- than
- as
- the least
They live in Amiens. They are ............. far from Paris than from Grenoble.
- less
- the most
- as
They haven't got as ................. money as us.
- much
- more
- most