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Showing posts with label comparatives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comparatives. Show all posts

Sunday, 13 January 2019

Friday, 12 January 2018

Comparatives & superlatives


MORE EXAMPLES:

  • COMPARATIVES:
    • Sue is older than Clare.
    • Sue is more intelligent than Clare.
  • SUPERLATIVES:
    • Sue is the oldest student in her class.
    • Sue is the most intelligent student in her class.

Tuesday, 9 January 2018

Monday, 7 July 2014

Some comparisons in English

These comparative expressions are commonly used in English:

as black as pitch
as blind as a bat
picture by Jorge Martínez - Banco Imágenes INTEF
as brave as a lion
as brown as a berry
as busy as a bee
as cool as a cucumber
as cold as ice
as cunning / sly as a fox
as drunk as a lord
as easy as a pie
as fast as a hare
as fit as a fiddle
as free as a bird
as good as gold
as green as grass
as happy as a lark
as heavy as lead
as high as a mountain
as hungry as a lion
as light as a feather
as long as a month of Sundays
as old as the hills / as Methusalem
as pale as a ghost
as poor as a church mouse
as proud as a peacock
as red as a tomato
as tight as rain
as silent as the grave
as slippery as an eel
as smooth as silk
as sober as a judge
as thin as a rake
as ugly as sin
as wet as a fish
as white as a lily
as wise as an owl

Thursday, 17 October 2013

Comparatives and superlatives

These last weeks we have been studying comparative and superlative structures in our classes.  This chart summarizes the main points that you have to keep in mind:
If you want to download the worksheet used in class, click here and if you want to check if you already know this grammar structure, you may try: