How to Make Basic Adjective Comparisons English Grammar for Beginners
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is how to make basic adjective
comparisons so for today’s lesson we’re
going to review some very basic grammar
points let’s take a look at today’s
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lesson boards so today we’re going to
review how to make
the comparative form of adjectives we’re
going to talk about short adjectives and
long adjectives and we’re going to talk
about the key differences
between the two how to make them then
we’re going to look at positive
comparisons and negative comparisons so
for today’s lesson uh we’re going to
focus on i’ve chosen a few key
vocabulary words i want to focus on for
today’s lesson but if you have some
example sentences uh please feel free to
send them in the chat and i will try to
check your sentences live okay so let’s
get into it let’s start by reviewing how
we make basic adjective comparisons okay
so first we need to consider we need to
think about how long the word is and we
need to think about syllables in a word
what’s a syllable so let’s begin from
this point first
let’s talk about short adjectives short
adjectives so when i say short
adjectives i mean adjectives that are
one to two syllables long so a syllable
means the beat in a word so when we say
the word how many beats are in the word
so
when we make a comparison when we make
the comparative form with a short
adjective
one to two syllables
we follow this pattern we use adjective
plus er adjective plus er or a few
different spellings okay so for example
the adjective tall so one syllable tall
tall becomes taller
taller so this is the comparative form
the adjective short becomes
shorter
shorter okay the adjective pretty so two
beats two syllables in this word pretty
pretty becomes prettier prettier
and big
becomes bigger so this is the basic form
for short
adjectives also notice a couple spelling
changes here so tall we add er
short add er no problem however if your
adjective the base adjective if it ends
with y
drop the y so cancel the way
add i e r so we don’t use pretty with a
y plus e r the spelling changes the
pronunciation does not change so
prettier okay
all right some examples are already
coming in so and so is taller than me
i’ve seen a few of those come in okay
facebook i saw you for a second there we
are hi facebook welcome facebook good
okay and then uh big i have another
spelling point here so big this one this
is an example of one that ends with this
single a consonant big
here you’ll notice we double it we
double we we put two of that ending
consonant there so there are a couple of
different spelling rules to consider but
today i want to practice making
sentences with this grammar point okay
cool so this is how we make the
comparative form with short adjectives
now let’s look at long adjectives long
adjectives so we talked about short
adjectives being one to two syllables
one to two beats in a word yeah
long adjectives are three plus so three
or more syllables three or more beats in
a word yeah so for example we have
beautiful
expensive delicious these have long or
these are long adjectives beautiful
expensive delicious right so we have a
different comparative form for these
kinds of adjectives okay
so
oh thanks very much reuben really
appreciate that on youtube hi facebook
facebook has joined us welcome facebook
thanks everybody okay good so let’s talk
about how we make uh
the comparative form with these long
adjectives
instead of adding er to the end like we
do with short adjectives
we instead put more
before the adjective so beautiful
becomes more beautiful
expensive becomes more expensive
delicious becomes more delicious okay we
don’t say beautifuler or expensiver or
deliciouser unless we want to make a
joke maybe please use more plus long
adjective okay
so please keep in mind
these beats in the words so this is how
we make the decision generally uh of the
for the comparative form okay then
lastly the last point here i want to
talk about irregular comparatives
irregular comparatives what do i mean
by irregular comparative i mean these
are adjectives that do not follow these
rules these are different adjectives for
example
good does not become gooder we have the
word better so good becomes better
bad becomes worse
fun
becomes more fun we don’t say funner
it’s a short adjective yes but we don’t
say funner we say more fun this was more
fun than that
so there are a few exceptions there are
a few uh different uh comparative forms
here so these of course there are just a
few of these these are a few there are a
few more but generally you can follow
this rule and you’ll be okay all right
so
with this in mind we’re going to
practice making positive and negative
comparisons today okay cool all right so
this is part one how to make the
comparative form of our adjectives let’s
take a short break and then we’ll begin
our sentence making practice for today
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do the next part let’s continue to part
two for today so in part two we’re going
to talk about how to make positive
comparisons so that means we’re going to
make some positive sentences so i’m
going to focus on the adjectives i
introduced in part one today but if you
have some different adjectives uh some
different ideas please feel free to send
them
so let’s take a look how do we make a
positive comparison so a positive
sentence that uses a comparison
today here is the basic pattern i want
to practice
noun phrase a
is
comparative
than
noun phrase be
noun phrase a is comparative then noun
phrase b okay so we’re going to focus on
these just simple present tense
sentences to practice okay so let’s take
a look let’s break down each sentence
and you can send your examples in the
chat okay first one my coworker
is taller than my boss my coworker is
taller than my boss okay
noun phrase a my coworker right here
noun phrase a my coworker then
is
taller taller is my comparative
adjective yeah taller than follows it
noun phrase b my boss so my coworker is
taller than my boss so from the two
people my co-worker is taller my boss is
shorter
right okay so
next one
her house is bigger
than his house her house is bigger than
his house so again same pattern her
house noun phrase a
is
comparative bigger than
noun phrase b his house her house is
bigger than his house right okay so very
very basic sentences all right
uh cook with amrita says my top my
husband is taller than me good okay uh
your name is in korean it says english
marathoner today’s coffee is stronger
than usual ah nice one yeah stronger
than usual good good good okay i’m
looking for other example sentences
uh someone wrote lami on facebook wrote
i think fun becomes more funny that’s a
common uh issue fun and funny are
different adjectives yeah so i talked
about fun here fun becomes more fun so
something that is fun is enjoyable we
feel excited to do that thing but funny
means it makes us laugh right fun and
funny are different that’s a very common
issue so please be careful of the
differences between the two
i’m looking for your example sentences
uh
i am smarter than my friend is this
right your sentence is grammatically
correct i don’t know about your
situation with your friend
yes your sentence is grammatically
correct uh tanjina i hope uh on hassan
on facebook says my brother is taller
than me perfect okay
um other ones i saw another one up here
i lost it oh shoot i lost it ah oh there
it is rajun raduan i hope uh says jerry
is smarter than tom good example okay
that’s good all right so let’s continue
to the next one
this computer is more expensive than my
phone this computer is more expensive
than my phone okay so this example
sentence uses the long comparative form
i talked about yeah these sentences use
bigger taller those short adjectives
right
this one
uses more expensive this is a long
adjective it follows the same pattern
this computer noun phrase a
is more expensive so it’s two words yes
but this is the comparative form of the
adjective okay
this computer is more expensive than my
phone noun phrase b
okay
good
all right uh some people uh i am
beautiful i can’t read your name on
facebook i am more beautiful don’t
forget this more
before your comparison for these long
adjectives if you missed it i talked
about this in part one yeah
okay
let’s go to the next one i wanted to
introduce a kind of long one so
sometimes noun phrase a and noun phrase
b can be very long right so let’s look
at an example of this this is still a
basic comparative sentence so
my mother’s cooking
is more delicious
than the food at our neighborhood
restaurant
so again my mother’s cooking noun phrase
a
is more delicious comparative than
the food at our neighborhood restaurant
noun phrase b
okay so our noun phrases can be quite
long yeah so this one is long the food
at our neighborhood restaurant that’s a
long noun phrase right so we can make
our comparative sentences long as well
these are still very very um
very good sentences to use alexandria
lima how do i use biggest that is a
superlative we are not talking about
superlatives uh in today’s lesson but we
use it to talk about the most
of something yeah the
most big of something okay
um a lot of people are talking about
physical things if a lot of you are
writing i am more handsome i am more
beautiful than so and so okay you’re
very confident good for you okay
all right
um christian he’s funner than her or
he’s more fun than her so this is time
number three talking about this
adjective more fun more fun okay so
i’m gonna run a counter for this
adjective question okay
all right let’s continue to the last
point the last point here
i wanted to introduce one more uh
emphasis word we can use we often use in
our comparatives my new job is much
better than my old job my new job is
much better than my old job so this
sentence uses much right so my original
pattern is noun phrase a is comparative
yeah so my new job is better than my old
job right my new job is better than my
old job also perfectly fine
sometimes we use much
in this position for emphasis so this
means a lot yeah my new job is a lot
better than my old job or my new job is
much better than my old job so sometimes
we use this word in this position for
emphasis you can too
okay looking for a couple more questions
facebook uh clinton says on facebook my
house is more beautiful than yours watch
your spelling yeah than t-h-a-n yeah
then it’s perfect nicely done so t-h-a-n
okay others uh her cell phone is more
expensive than his cell phone good one
okay uh others i’m looking for your
questions and your example sentences
reuben thanks again for uh supporting
the channel my cat is more dangerous
than my dog my cat is more dangerous
than my dog so not most more dangerous
than my dog for your adjective
comparison it’s not most dangerous okay
so let’s take one more break and then
we’re going to flip our examples to make
them negative because negatives that’s
where i see a lot of learners start to
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um
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okay let’s continue to part three
let’s practice making negative
comparisons so
we’re going to just kind of reverse
we’re going to look at the opposite of
the example sentences we just practiced
but we’re going to reverse the meaning
so let’s see what i mean by this first
let’s look at the basic pattern we’re
going to use here so the basic pattern
for our negative comparisons is
noun phrase a
is not as base adjective so right here
no adjective change here just use the
basic form of the adjective yeah noun
phrase a is not as
base adjective
as
noun phrase b
okay so common errors to watch out for
one don’t change the adjective like i
said bass adjective two
don’t use than here use as okay so this
is how we create a negative comparison
so let’s look at the examples and see
how these are different from the
examples we just talked about so
my co-worker is not as tall as my boss
my co-worker is not as tall as my boss
this means my co-worker is not as tall
as my boss so in other words my boss is
taller than my co-worker okay my
co-worker is not as tall as so here tall
not taller okay my co-worker is not as
tall as my boss
all right next one her house is not
as big as his house
her house is not as big as his house so
this means his house is bigger yeah her
house is smaller that’s what this
sentence means her house is not as big
as his house
okay one more this computer is not as
expensive as my phone
this computer is not as expensive as my
phone so my phone is maybe very
expensive my computer not so expensive
so again here
not as more expensive is incorrect don’t
change your adjective here and use as
not than in this position okay
uh matthew says my brother is not as
smart as my father perfect nice grammar
nice grammar okay other ones oh my gosh
facebook you’ve got some over here my
father is not as tall as my mother
really okay so your mother is mo is
taller than your father okay
uh my brother is not as tall as my
husband good okay
um
big equals more big uh it’s okay nope
nope nope so i think some people have a
little homework please review this part
part one i think facebook maybe missed
parts of part one for short adjectives
we follow this rule so big becomes
bigger yeah this is how we create the
basic form of adjectives if you missed
it so practice making uh your adjectives
into the comparative form yeah
okay all right then uh let’s go
to the next one what was the next one ah
the next one
is our very very long one here so my
mother’s cooking
is not as delicious as the food at our
neighborhood restaurant
my mother’s cooking is not as delicious
as the food at our neighborhood
restaurant so this sentence means my
mother’s cooking is
the quality is less
than the neighborhood restaurant’s food
so in our positive sentence it was the
compliment right my mother’s cooking is
more delicious than the food at our
neighborhood restaurant in this sentence
the negative my mother’s cooking is not
as delicious means my mother’s food is
not very good
okay so be careful
when you’re making these comparatives
okay one more then
my new job is not as good
as my old job
my new job is not as good as my old job
so again is not as base adjective good
as
my old job okay
all right so i’m looking for your
example sentences now you are not as
tall as my friend says suffum very good
okay
um
ahmed says i’m uh 1.86 or six feet i’m
not as tall as my dad good okay
my cook is not as delicious as hers my
cooking is not as delicious as hers then
it’s perfect okay my cooking is not as
delicious as hers
faveland says the weather yesterday is
not as cold as today good okay
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not as good as alicia’s how do you know
you’ve never had one of my sandwiches
okay other ones i’m looking for your
examples
um my friend is not as clever as my
brother
good ali says my new cars my new cars
performance
is not as good as the old one yeah very
very close good good um good example
sentence nice structure my new cars so
cars apostrophe s my new car’s
performance is not as good as the old
one or my old one my old cars one yeah
nice one
um
okay
not as as to make a negative sentence i
always put the form not as as
my
uh i’m not sure what you mean i i feel
like we’re saying the same thing not as
adjective as right i feel like your
comment jonathan
is saying the same structure for this
pattern maybe maybe i’m misunderstanding
that let me know okay uh other examples
my brother is more taller than my father
oh common common mistake right there uh
enrique my brother is base adjective my
brother is uh oh sorry sorry sorry
you’re making a positive one
that was part two my brother is taller
than my father so i am seeing a few uh
more than a few people
mixing up these two yeah
so short adjectives a reminder refresher
from part one short adjectives get er
the comparative form tall becomes taller
short becomes shorter pretty becomes
prettier
long adjectives get more yeah so we
can’t put more bigger or more prettier
we do not do this unless we want to make
a joke for some strange reason i don’t
know but please make sure you don’t mix
your comparative forms okay
uh other examples other examples oh
there are so many this lesson is as good
as the previous one nice one so we’re
we’re doing an equal and equal sentence
um
other ones oh my goodness my new
girlfriend is not the same as the old
girlfriend okay so maybe try to use a
comparative then you could say like my
new girlfriend is taller than my old
girlfriend or something like that
phew okay i think you’re getting it just
make sure i think maybe some good
homework uh for some of you is to review
how to make the comparative form of your
adjectives
and then make sure you apply them with
this rule right here so keep in mind
this part right here for positives and
for negatives this part right here so
note base adjective in negatives
comparative form in positives okay so
maybe that’s your your takeaway for
today’s lesson all right oh my gosh
perfect timing i have to wrap it up so
we’ll finish this week’s lesson there
thanks very much for all of your
questions and comments and your great
example sentences thank you thank you
thank you for sending your example
sentences live uh i will show you
today’s lesson boards one more time so
you can take a screenshot here you go
so we talked uh several times about how
to make basic adjective comparatives how
do we make uh the comparative form with
short adjectives how do we make the
comparative form with long adjectives so
please practice this point i think many
of you
then we practice making positive
comparisons and negative comparisons so
we can do a lot actually with this
simple grammar point so it’s good to
make sure we understand how to use it
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