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“Is better than” / “Is the best” – Comparatives and Superlatives


hi I’m an engineer valiums industries
today I’m going to tell you a bit about
the company and show you exactly what we
do here what I’m excited to show you
today is complete company transparency
due to some recent concerns from some of
our customers I’d like to show you the
process of exactly how we make those
monsters that you love to see first I’d
like to introduce you to offer Jim gem
optimal Jim Jam was our first attempt at
making a monster sure he’s big and he’s
strong and he’s dangerous but we wanted
to do more so let me show you exactly
how we improve our monsters to improve a
monster we have to compare it to one we
have so what we need to do is write a
comparative sentence into our computer
first what are comparative sentences
well you need them to compare two things
in this case we’ll compare awful jimJam
we’ll call him a and our new monster B
we’re going to call him charlie at the
moment a and B are the same to say two
things have the same level of something
we say a is as something as B the
adjective doesn’t change so now a is as
tall as B is as dangerous as B is as
heavy as B and is as smart as be the
same level of everything but we want to
change and improve B so our comparative
sentence looks like this B is more or
less something than a first sighs what a
is too small we won’t be to be more this
adjective tall for this adjective to say
more tall we’ll put er at the end of the
adjective taller B is taller than a
easy right next dangerous for this
adjective will put more before the
adjective so be is more dangerous than a
but why they different well it’s all
about syllables what’s a syllable I’ll
give you a clue syllable has three
syllables sila bulb an adjective with
just one syllable we simply put ER at
the end more than one syllable we put
more before the adjective let’s try with
another one smart B is smarter than egg
next
heavy heavy has two syllables more heavy
right well two syllables it could be
more heavy but it could also be ER at
the end but the end of the adjective
finishes with Y so we’d need to say
heavier more heavier no just B is
heavier than a remember with Y endings
both are fine but m IE r is more common
so our comparative sentence to create
your new monster b is taller more
dangerous smarter and heavier than a and
that that makes science happen so as you
can see after writing in the comparative
sentence we’ve created a new villain
let’s meet charlie so as you can see
charlie is smarter heavier and more
dangerous than awful jimJam
that’s how we compare things in English
and that’s how we may come on parity of
sentences so comparative sentences are
easy right but the only exceptions are
irregular adjectives like good and bad
we don’t say good and badder we say
better and worse look at these words fat
big sad see how they end with a single
continent if we want to make fatter
bigger sadder that final consonant will
be doubled so in fatter is a TT bigger
GG sadder double D now I’d like to show
you what we’re most proud of our latest
two villains we didn’t want just
something bad and evil and fast and
beautiful no we wanted the number one of
these things in the world a superlative
supervillain and to write a superlative
sentence it would look something like
this
superlatives describe something that’s
greater than anything else the number 1
of that thing and how do we make a
superlative sentence well it would look
like this
our new monster X is the something we
want to say the number 1 something again
it follows the rule of syllables just
one syllable is the something est or
with a why adjective I ESP more than one
syllable we put most before the
adjective and so this this is lady reloj
she’s the fastest prettiest most
beautiful and most evil villain we’ve
ever created
however I
sorry hi this is what we’re most proud
of we wanted a villain who could show
strength but also glamour but we wanted
the number one of that in the world so
introducing the most glamorous the
strongest villain in the world we simply
call him one as we love safety here are
some common mistakes so you can avoid
them don’t mix up your comparatives and
superlatives we won’t say something is
the more beautiful the more no it should
be something is the most beautiful
remember those irregular adjectives are
good and bad
well the superlative of those would be
best and worst thank you for visiting
Williams industries we hope you’ve
enjoyed your tour of our facility as
much as we’ve enjoyed giving it to you
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superlative sentence in the comments
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