CLOTHES & ACCESSORIES

COMPARATIVE ADJECTIVES
T-shirt
blouse
coat

sandals
belt

boots
dress

shirt
shorts socks

shoes
skirt

suit

tie pants

scarf
 hat

sweater

best
High-
gloves heels
The words pant, shorts, jeans,
gloves, shoes, etc are plural
nouns.
Adjectives describe nouns and have the same form in the
singular and in the plural.
The T-shirt is expensive. The T-shirts are expensive.

They go before nouns or after the verb to be .

This is a small house. This house is small.

TALL

SHORT
OLD YOUNG
UGLY

BEAUTIFUL
EXPENSIVE CHEAP
HAPPY
SAD
SUNNY
COLD
DIRTY
CLEAN
RICH

POOR
WEAK
STRONG
We use the comparative form to compare two people,
animals or things. An adjective in the comparative form is
usually followed by the word than
TALL
 All one-syllable adjectives take ER

tall taller
 Adjectives which end in –e take –r

safe safer
 One-syllable adjectives which end in one vowel + one
consonant double the consonant and take –er

big bigger

 Adjectives which end in a consonant + y change the y to i and

take –er

happy happier
 We form the comparative of adjectives with two,three or
more syllables with more + adjective.
interesting More interesting
good better

bad worse

far Farther/further
 completete comparative sentences about the pictures using than and the words
in brackets ( ).
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WASHINGTON /NEW YORK

TOM/SAM ALASKA/SPAIN STEVE/JANE
SMALL
TALL COLD HUNGRY

1.
2.
3.
4.
 5
6
7
8

MARY/MIKE FILM STARTS/ MY

I /MY BROTHER
HAPPY TEACHER PETER/CHRIS
YOUNG
RICH FRIENDLY

5.
6.
7.
8..
Write comparative sentences using the
verbs in brackets
Make sentences comparing these things