Bigger, stronger and more handsome
 
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| New words  Palabras nuevas handsome: buen mozo to guess: imaginar, adivinar than: que lady: dama gentleman: caballero the press: la prensa 'Más grande, fuerte y buen mozo'  | 
    
| Comparative and superlative forms | Formas comparativas y superlativas | 
Here you have some rules you will have 
      to follow for the formation of comparative and superlative forms 
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  Aquí tienes algunas reglas que tendrás que seguir 
      para la formación de los comparativos y los superlativos. 
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| Degrees | Positive | Comparatives | Superlatives | Grado | Positivo | Comparativo | Superlativo | |
| One-syllable adjectives | old | older | the oldest | Adjetivos de una sílaba | vieja/ o | más pequeña /o | el /la más pequeña /o | |
| cold | colder | the coldest | frío | más frío | el la más fría | |||
| new | newer | the newest | nueva/ o | |||||
| young | younger | the youngest | joven | |||||
| small | smaller | the smallest | pequeña/ o | |||||
| high | higher | the highest | alta /o | |||||
| Adjectives ending in -y | dirty | dirtier | the dirtiest | Adjetivos que terminan en -y | sucia/o | más sucia/o | ella más sucia /o | |
| noisy | noisier | the noisiest | ruidosa/o | |||||
| heavy | heavier | the heaviest | pesada/o | |||||
| Two or more syllable adjectives | intelligent | more intelligent | the most intelligent | Adjetivos de dos o más sílabas | inteligente | más inteligente | el/la más inteligente | |
| expensive | more expensive | the most expensive | cara/o | |||||
| boring | more boring | the most boring | aburrida/o | |||||
| Irregular adjectives | good | better | the best | Adjetivos irregulares | buena/o | mejor | el /la mejor | |
| bad | worse | the worst | mala/o | |||||
| far | further | the furthest | lejos | 
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| Tom is old. He is 70. But Paul is 83. He is older than Tom...and Joe is 120. He is the oldest | 
  Tomás es viejo. Tiene 70 años. Pero Pablo tiene 83. El es más 
      viejo que Tomás....y José tiene 120 años. Es el más viejo. 
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The trumpet is noisy...A 
      single drum is noisier...But a set of drums is the
      noisiest musical 
      instrument 
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  La trompeta es ruidosa...Un tambor solo es más ruidoso...Pero la 
      batería es el instrumento musical más ruidoso. 
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A pocket camera is expensive... A reflex camera is
      more expensive than a 
      pocket camera....But a digital camera is the most expensive 
      of the three 
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 Una cámara de bolsillo es cara...Una cámara reflex es más cara que la 
      de bolsillo....Pero una cámara digital es la más cara de las tres   
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Tom is a good student. He marks are always 
      seven or eight. Sue is better than Tom: she 
      gets always eight or nine....But Lisa is the best 
      in the class...She always gets ten 
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Tomás es un buen estudiante. Sus notas son siempre siete u ocho. Susana 
      es mejor que Tomás: obtiene siempre ocho o nueve...Pero Lisa es la mejor 
      de la clase...Siempre consigue diez 
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| Notice that the word than frequently accompanies the comparative and the word the precedes the superlative. | Nota que la palabra than muy a menudo acompaña al comparativo y la palabra the antecede al superlativo | 
| To end this lesson note also that adjectives that end in a vowel and one consonant double that final consonant: | Para terminar con esta lección nota también que los adjetivos que teminan en una vocal y en una consonante duplican la consonante final | |||
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| big bigger the biggest | grande | |||
| hot hotter the hottest | cálido | |||
| wet wetter the wettest | 
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| Activity: Now try to complete this exercise using comparatives and superlatives | Actividad: Ahora trata de completar este ejercicio usando comparativos y superlativos | |
       Some words are in brackets to 
          help you.            
          Algunas palabras están entre paréntesis para servirte de ayuda. 
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Mount Everest is than Cerro Aconcagua. (high)
I like music. To me, music is interesting than maths.
Cheetahs are than tigers or lions. (fast)
The Parana is a long river...The Amazon is longer. But the Nile is the in the world.
Mariah Carey is a bit than Madonna. (young)
This Ferrari is the expensive car in the world!
Which is the heaviest? Gold, silver or aluminium? "Gold is the of the three"
The giraffe is than the elephant. (tall)
Laurel and Hardy were than the Simson" (funny)
Albert Einstein was more than our former president..."Anyone was" (intelligent)
Pluto is than Mars (cold)
Mercury is the planet to the Sun. (close)
The Atacama desert is than the Amazonian region. (dry)
The Saharan desert is the one in the world. (big)
A horse lives longer than a dog...But a tortoise lives the
Which is smaller, China, Argentina or Monaco? "Obviously Monaco is the of the three"
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