- •Введение
- •Part I focus 1 position of adjectives
- •Focus 2 suffixes and prefexes
- •Focus 3 gradable and ungradable adjectives
- •Focus 4 the order of adjectives in sentences
- •Focus 5 comparison
- •Focus 6 participial adjectives
- •Focus 8 adjectives without nouns
- •Focus 9 compound adjectives
- •Focus 10 adverbs
- •Focus 11 position of adverbs
- •Focus 12 adverbs and adjectives
- •Focus 13 degree adverbs
- •Focus 14 comment adverbs, viewpoint adverbs, focus adverbs
- •Focus 15 comparative and superlative adverbs
- •Part 2 test yourself
- •Test 2
- •Part 3 adjective Formation of adjectives
- •Types of adjectives
- •Order of adjectives
- •Position of adjectives
- •Predicative Adjectives
- •Attributive Adjectives
- •Adjectives that can change in meaning before a noun or after «be»
- •Substantivized adjectives
- •(A native, a relative, a black, a white, a saint, a patient, a savage, a Liberal, a Conservative, a Republican, a Democrat, a noble, a private, a Catholic, a Christian)
- •Partially substantivized adjectives
- •(A rich man, a sick person)
- •The English – two Englishmen/women, three Swiss, etc.
- •Participial adjectives
- •A very convincing example
- •Degrees of Comparison
- •A Higher Degree
- •The formation of comparative and superlative.
- •Irregular Comparison
- •Further – the furthest (with reference to distance, abstract notions, to denote “another” “additional”
- •Position of comparatives
- •More and More than
- •How significant a role did he play in your life?
- •It was like a dream
- •Same as
- •Other prepositions
- •The better the joke (is), the louder the laugh(is). The longer Sue stays in Canada, the less likely she will ever go back to England.
- •It almost seems that the more expensive the wedding, the shorter the marriage!
- •Adjectives used with the pronoun one/ones
- •Function Adverbs may function either as adverbials or as modifiers.
- •Comparison
- •Comparison at the same degree is formed by the folllowing:
- •Modification of Comparatives and superlatives
- •The Difference in meaning
- •The adverb deep means “far down or in.”
- •Adjectives or Adverbs? (Confusing cases)
- •Types of adverbs
- •6. Interrogative and conjunctive adverbs.
- •The Position of Adverbs
- •Adverbs of manner
- •Adverbs of place
- •3) Adverbs of time
- •4. Adverbs of frequency
- •6. Focusing adverbs
- •7. Adverbs of degree
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The formation of comparative and superlative.
Most qualitative adjectives have three degrees of comparison: positive, comparative and superlative
Adjectives form their degree of comparison in the following ways.
a) by adding the suffixes –er and –est
b) by placing “more” and “the most” before adjectives
Monosyllabic adjectives form their comparative and superlative degree by adding the suffixes –er and –est
new – newer – the newest
bright – brighter – the brightest
Two – syllable adjectives ending in –er, -ow, -y, -le also form their comparative and superlative degree by adding the suffixes –er and –est
happy – happier – the happiest
narrow – narrower - the narrowest
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simple – simpler – the simplest
but if adjectives ending in –er or –y are preceded by un – they can be inflected in two ways:
unhappy – unhappier – the unhappiest
more unhappy – the most unhappy
3. Two – syllable adjectives with the stress on the second syllable add the suffixes –er and –est
polite – politer – the politest
2.Adjectives of more than two syllables form their comparatives and superlatives with the help of more and most.
beautiful-more beautiful-the most beautiful
personal-more personal-the most personal
Some points to notice
a) adjectives formed from participles and ing – forms
tired-more tired-the most tired
interesting-more interesting-the most interesting
b) adjectives used only predicatively
afraid – more afraid
aware – more aware
the superlatives are hardly ever used in English
c) two – syllable adjectives that end in –ful, -er, or –less only take more and the most
useful-more useful-the most useful
obscure –more obscure-the most obscure
d) the following adjectives take more and the most only: careless, certain, complex, fertile, foolish, frequent, normal, private
e) Both ways of forming the comparative and superlative degrees are used with two-syllable adjectives stressed on the first syllable: common, pleasant, polite, solid, handsome, quiet, cruel, tired, and word ending in –er and –le.
f) little is not usually compared
little/small - smaller – the smallest.
Spelling and pronunciation rules.
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sad – sadder – the saddest
2.If the adjective ends in –y preceded by the consonant –y is changed into i before –er, -est
busy – busier – the busiest
but: gay – gayer – the gayest.
3.If the adjective ends in -e, this e is dropped before –er, est
fine – finer – the finest.
4.In such adjectives as long, strong, [g] sound is added to the [n] of the base
long [ l n ] –longer [l ng]
while in dear and near the final [r] is not pronounced, but it is pronounced in dearer, dearest
Irregular Comparison
Good – better – the best
Bad/Ill worse – the worst
Much / many – more – most
Little – smaller- the smallest
Old – older – the oldest (for age)
-elder – the eldest (speaking about members of the family (with nouns son, daughter, brother, sister) or a social group.
My elder brother is older than me.
This building is the oldest in the city.
Who is the eldest in your family?
far – farther – the farthest ( with reference to distance only)