Comparative Adjectives: Unidad Educativa Particular Pcei "Nuevo Ecuador"
Comparative Adjectives: Unidad Educativa Particular Pcei "Nuevo Ecuador"
Comparative Adjectives: Unidad Educativa Particular Pcei "Nuevo Ecuador"
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Comparative Adjectives
When we talk about two things, we can "compare" them. We can see if they are
the same or different. Perhaps they are the same in some ways and different in
other ways. We can use comparative adjectives to describe the differences.
We can use comparative adjectives when talking about two things (not three or more
things).
In the example below, "bigger" is the comparative form of the adjective "big":
Short adjectives
Long adjectives
Exception
The following adjectives have irregular forms:
• good → better
• well (healthy) → better
• bad → worse
• far → farther/further
Although we use comparative adjectives when talking about two things (not three or
more things), in fact one or both of the things may be a group of things.
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Noun as Adjective
As you know, a noun is a person, place or thing, and an adjective is a word that
describes a noun:
adjectiv noun
e
clever teache
r
small office
black horse
Sometimes we use a noun to describe another noun. In that case, the first noun "acts
as" an adjective.
noun as
adjective noun
history teache
r
ticket office
race horse
The "noun as adjective" always comes first
If you remember this it will help you to understand what is being talked about:
Just like a real adjective, the "noun as adjective" is invariable. It is usually in the
singular form.
Right Wrong
A few nouns look plural but we usually treat them as singular (for example news,
billiards, athletics). When we use these nouns "as adjectives" they are unchanged:
Exceptions:
When we use certain nouns "as adjectives" (clothes, sports, customs, accounts, arms),
we use them in the plural form:
We write the "noun as adjective" and the real noun in several different ways:
There are no easy rules for this. We even write some combinations in two or all three
different ways: (head master, head-master, headmaster)
• shoe shop
• boat-race
• bathroom
Yes. Just like adjectives, we often use more than one "noun as adjective" together.
Look at these examples:
Note, too, that we can still use a real adjective to qualify a "noun as adjective"
structure:
I have jumped
When we use the present perfect tense in speaking, we usually contract the subject
and auxiliary verb. We also sometimes do this when we write.
I have I've
He has He's
She has She's
It has It's
John has John's
The car has The car's
We have We've
This tense is called the present perfect tense. There is always a connection with the
past and with the present. There are basically three uses for the present perfect tense:
1. experience
2. change
3. continuing situation
We often use the present perfect tense to talk about experience from the past. We are
not interested in when you did something. We only want to know if you did it:
!!!
We also use the present perfect tense to talk about a change or new information:
- +
+ -
+ -
- +
Americans do not use the present perfect tense so much as British speakers.
Americans often use the past tense instead. An American might say "Did you have
lunch?", where a British person would say "Have you had lunch?"
We often use the present perfect tense to talk about a continuing situation. This is a
state that started in the past and continues in the present (and will probably continue
into the future). This is astate (not an action). We usually use for or since with this
structure.
The situation started in the It continues up to now. (It will probably continue
past. into the future.)
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2. spend
→
3. give
→
4. teach
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5. sell
→
6. make
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7. drink
→
8. catch
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9. have
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10. sit
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