Degree of comparisons

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 3

A few things

• Work on formative.com
• Noisy, rowdy classroom
• Cards: Blue, orange, and yellow
• Test chapter 1: Grammar, vocabulary, and expressions 
• October 3

Degrees of comparison

• What are degrees of comparison?
• How to use degrees of comparison in sentences?

Degrees of comparison

• What is it?
• Three ways:
• Two things/people: School A is bigger than school B.
• More than two: School C is the biggest in the country.  
• Net zo --als--: School D is as big as school E. 
• My car is as expensive as yours. 

Rule 1

• Example: School A is big.
• School A is bigger than school B. -- two things.
• School C is the biggest in the country. - more than two.
• My house is beautiful.
• My house is ............... than yours. 
• My house is the ................... in town. 

Rule 2

• Short words 
• Cool - cooler than - the coolest
• Big - bigger than - the biggest
• nice - nicer than - the nicest 
• Pretty - prettier than - the prettiest  
• Long words
• Beautiful - more beautiful than - the most beautiful

Irregular

• Good - better than - the best
• Bad - worse than - the worst 
• Little - less than - the least

 

Net zo --- als----

as ---- as

My house is as big as your house. 

My car is as expensive as yours. 

These shoes are as old as those ones. 

This is ------- (good) car I have ever seen.

1. better
2. better
3. the goodest
4. the best

The house is............ (big) mine.

1. the biggest
2. bigger than
3. biger
4. the bigest

This is ------ (beautiful) painting I have ever seen.

This book is ------- (interesting) that one.

The cake is -------- (delicious) the one we had last week. (as ... as)

Work

See pages 41-42

Exercises 7, 8,