PET: Preparazione Certificazione B1 Lesson 3

We use comparative adjectives when we compare two people or things.

We use superlative adjectives when we compare more than two people or things.

Hits! is smaller than Buzz.

Buzz is the most expensive. (magazine) 

Hits! is the least expensive magazine. 

We make comparative and superlative adjectives like this:

Some adjectives are irregular:

• good→better→the best

• bad →worse→, the worst

• far→further,→the furthest

His latest song is better than his last song. 

This magazine is worse than that one.

The furthest galaxies are about three thousand million light-years away.

Buzz isn’t as popular as Hits!

Buzz is as popular as Hits!

You can read Hits! more easily than Buzz. 

The Smash journalists write better than some national journalists. 

Adverbs ending in -ly form comparative and superlatives like this:

She walked on, more slowly than before.

Your dress is more beautifully designed than mine.

You can write more easily with this pen.

Other adverbs form comparatives and superlatives like short adjectives:

hard→harder→hardest

Some adverbs are irregular:

• well→better→the best
• badly→worse→the worst

I play the guitar well but Rob plays the guitar better than me.

Rob plays a lot of instruments but he plays the guitar the best.

Smash has more reviews than Hits!

Hits! has the most adverts.

Smash contains the most information. 

There are fewer adverts in Smash than in Hits!.

Hits!has the fewest posters.

There’s less rubbish in Smash than in Buzz. 

Smash contains the least rubbish.