2019-03-05 Grammar: comparative adj and adv

Greg Malivuk
gmalivuk@staffordhouse.com
http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - Notes from all classes
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Mixed present and past unreal conditionals:
I am a bad student, so I didn’t study last night. (General condition with a past result/consequence.)
-> If I were a better student, I would have studied last night.

I didn’t study last night, so I don’t feel confident about this test. (Past condition with a present result.)
-> If I had studies last night, I would feel confident about this test.
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Choose and write down a common noun.
With your partner, write as many sentences as you can to compare your nouns.
Airplanes are faster than cars.
Sushi is more delicious than a pen.
A dog is more expensive than a hot dog.
A cell phone is much smaller than a dog.
A cell phone is more useful than a hot dog.
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Rules for comparative adjectives:
- compare two (groups of) things
“short” adjectives (1 syllabale, 2 if the last syllable is ‘y’ or ‘le’): adjective+er
	cheap / cheaper, small / smaller
	heavy / heavier, pretty / prettier, happy / happier, friendly / friendlier, simple / simpler
“long” adjectives (3+ syllables, most 2-syllable): more + adjective / less + adjective
	more expensive / less expensive
	more interesting / less interesting
	more useful / less useful
irregular adjectives
	good / better
	bad / worse
	far / farther
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Adverbs are compared the same way as adjectives, except that all 2-syllable adverbs use “more” and “less”, unless they’re the same as an adjective:
	hard / harder
	fast / faster
	early / earlier
but
	quickly / more quickly, safely / more safely
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Degrees of comparison:
A price of $101 is a little more expensive than a price of $100
	(or “slightly” or “a bit”)
A price of $500 is much more expensive than a price of $100.
	(or “considerably” or “far”)
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Equatives (as...as)
This shirt is as beautiful as the other one.
My shirt is not as beautiful as yours. = My shirt is less beautiful than yours.

$100 is almost as expensive as $101 (or “nearly”)
$100 is not quite as expensive as $101
$100 is not nearly as expensive as $500
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p. 171 exercise 4 - Find this information about your partner, and write comparative sentences (with modifiers on the comparatives) about the two of you.
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I am much older/younger than my partner.
I am almost as old as my partner.
I am not nearly as old as my partner.
I have been studying English just as long as my partners.
I usually go to sleep just as late as my partner.
I go to sleep a little later than my partner. / My partner goes to sleep almost as late as I do.
I go to the movies much more frequently than my partner.