Comparisons

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 2,3

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adjectives

Bijvoeglijke naamwoorden (adjectives)

zeggen iets over het zelfstandige naamwoord

(noun)

The big lady in the painting.

comparatives & superlatives

woorden van 1 lettergreep

• Hij is groter dan ik ben. --> He is bigger than I am.
  big --> bigger --> biggest
• Mijn kat is liever dan de jouwe. --> My cat is sweeter than yours.
  sweet --> sweeter --> sweetest

comparatives & superlatives

woorden van 2 of meer lettergrepen

• English is more interesting than maths.
• But science is the most interesting.
  
  
• My friend is more grateful than my sister.
• But my Grandma is the most grateful.

Comparatives & superlatives

Use 'less' for long adjectives

• These jeans are less expensive than those jeans
• This book is less interesting than your book

Uitzonderingen! woorden van 2 lettergrepen eindigend op:

• - y        --> easy                  --> easier           --> easiest
• -le       --> gentle              --> gentler          --> gentlest
• - ow   --> shallow            --> shallower     --> shallowest
• -er      --> clever               --> cleverer         --> cleverest
• -some --> handsome   --> handsomer  --> handsomest

Deze woorden krijgen WEL -er/est i.p.v. more/most!

Uitzonderingen...

• good - better - best
• bad - worse - worst
• little - less - least
• far - further - furthest

Comparisons

Als iets  (niet) hetzelfde is...

• This chocolate tastes as good as that chocolate.
• That game is as expensive as Fifa21.
• This isn't as interesting as I thought.

Als er teveel is...

• This is too  good to be true.
• She is too nice to her daughter. 

Too = VOOR het bijv. nw.

Als er (niet) genoeg is....

• He was kind enough to help me out.
• They were not funny enough to make them smile. 

ENOUGH = NA het bijv. nw

He is ................. man in our village.

1. strongest than
2. stronger than
3. the strongest
4. the stronger

He has .......... car in our family.

1. faster than
2. the faster
3. fastest than
4. the fastest

This is a nice cat. It's much ...............
.
my friend's cat

1. nicer than
2. niceer than
3. the nicest
4. the niceest

This joke was ....................
joke I've ever heard.

1. the funnyest
2. funnyer than
3. the funniest
4. funnier than

London is .............city in Europe.

1. largeer than
2. the largeest
3. larger than
4. the largest

You look ........... yesterday

1. the happyest
2. the happiest
3. happier than
4. happyer than

This is .............
exercise on the worksheet.

1. the difficultest
2. the most difficult
3. the most difficultest
4. the more difficulter

my sister has ...................
hobby in the world.

1. the most interesting
2. the more interestinger
3. the interestingest
4. the most interstingest

He is .......... teacher in the country.

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

Oh no, this is my ............ nightmare!

1. badder
2. baddest
3. worse
4. worst

My cousin is ................his classmates

1. the most intelligent
2. the most intelligentest
3. more intelligent than
4. more intelligenter than

My life is ................. yours

1. more boring than
2. more boringer than
3. the most boring
4. the most boringest

Here is Emily. She's six years old. Her brother is nine, so he is...........

1. old
2. older
3. olden
4. oldest

This magazine is cheap, but that
one is...........

1. cheaper
2. cheaping
3. cheap
4. cheapest