This lesson is a follow-up to my previous English lessons on comparative and superlative adjectives. It focuses on some common exceptions to the regular grammatical rules. The earlier lessons in this series are here:
1. Comparative Adjectives
2. Superlative Adjectives
Make sure to watch those before you watch this one, and don’t forget to take the quiz below to test your knowledge of these grammar issues!
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For example: New, Newer and Newest
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I didnt know about this rule when a word finish in “W”.
For example: New, Newer and Newest
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At your last example:
I live far from work.
Mary lives farther.
John lives the farthest.
Can we use: Mary lives farther. (without second object)?
Or we should tell: Mary lives farther than I do.
Please, advise.
Hi Red Deer,
If you said “I live far from work. Mary lives farther.” It would be correct or you could express the same thought in the sentence that you wrote “Mary lives farther from work than I do.” Both are correct.
:) Valen
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Is it wrong to say..?
I live far from work
Mary lives farther than me.
John lives farthest. ( do I always have to write “THE “?)
Could you please give as a Class when to write: THE/ OFF/OF/ ?
Thank you very much.
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i dont know how to say the superlative and comparative of health.
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About a set of ur example:
I live far from work.
Mary lives farther.
John lives the farthest.
In these sentence above, Aren’t the word ‘FAR’, ‘FARTHER’, and ‘FARTHEST’ adverb?
When I read them I think that they modify the word ‘live’ and ‘lives’, respectively.
I wonder if they r adjectives or adverbs.
I’d be so glad if u’ll clarify it for me some.
Thank u in advance my teacher.
Take care and god bless u.
in this sentence u can use them adverb or adjective
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Is “more superior”a double comparative and should I therefore drop the ” more”?
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could you explain for me witch is right :
- “he is tall than me” OR “he is tall than I”
when do we user less /fewer in the sentence.
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In this sentence we need to use comparative adjective, because we compare two things.So the right sentence is “He is taller than me”
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What´s the difference between farther and further, or farthest and furthest?
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1) I would like to add one more thing about the informal (chiefly North American) use of the word “badder and baddest”. These words are used in the meaning of “good; excellent”
2) Regarding “far, farther and farthest”, I’d like to say that in examples in the lesson, these are used as an adverb because they modify the verb ‘live’. As an adjective we can use them as “Tom lives at a far place. Mary lives at a farther place than Tom’s and John lives at the at the farthest place.”
One more addition to this adjective and adverb “far” is that its comperative and superlative forms could be “further and furthest” too.
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Could you tell me if “farther” or “further” is the comparitive adjective for “far”….Or can you use both and where do you use it?
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Well I have a question. Could you help me please? Once I listened that it is possible to say handsomer as comparative. Is it true?
Hello Madam
thank you so much for those lessons on comparatives and superlatives.
I want to ask you if it’s possible to say ” He is a small man ” as an opposite of this statement ” He is tall man ” , I know that we have to say ” he is a short man “.
so the question is: is it acceptable to use ” small ” instead of ” short “
Dear Teacher Valen,
I had already studied with you through this lesson on « adjective » and I think that you are the best teacher for me because you are very good at explaining, so I would like to express deep thanks to you for helping me improve my English.But I wonder about a few sentences that I am not clear how to use it and those sentences are : Can I say the comparative and superlative degree with the care as follow :
1- I have to take care on this work -> comparative: I have to take more care on this work.-> superlative: I have to take most care on this work.Or I could say:
2-I have to take careful on this work -> I have to take more careful.-> I have to take most careful.
Here is different question from the above one that related to the word carefully and its comparative and superlative that I am not clear how to use it. so can I say with the comparison like this :
eg. I work carefully -> I work more carefully -> I work most carefully.
I’m sorry teacher for asking you a lot of question but I keen to improve my English.
Thank you in advance.
Respectfully,
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In lieu of farther or farthest, can I use Further or furthest as well?
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Thanks for the lesson, quite helpul! But actually when you’re giving the examples such as ‘Mary studied more than I did” and “John studied the most” you’re using adverbs not adjectives.
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if i used sad and i want to make it in comparative and superlative shall i write:-
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How can I difference between Comparative Adjectives and Superlative Adjectives
viz how can I know this is Comparative Adjectives and Superlative Adjectives?
When I see question or sentence I can say this is Comparative, this is
Superlative.
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Second: When I use older/oldest or elder/eldest?
Another doubt: When I use farther/farthest or further/furthest?
Valen please help me ;)
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Hello Miss Valen. I am Duong Le Van. I am from Hanoi , Vietnam I have been learning a lots of English from your lessons and the ways of your teaching . It is interesting to learn E with you.But in this lesson, I can’t understand the examples you made with “far/ farther /farthest”. Is it an adjective or an adverb ? My friend and I discussed about it many times. ” she gets up earlier / She goes to school later”, for example.I think ” earlier / later ” here are adverbs , but my friend said ” they are adjectives”. Who is correct ? Can you explain to us by the way ? Thanks for your help beforehand.
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Is( most) for superlative …. And (more) for comparative ???
THANK YOU!! I am learning comparative & superlative in my ESL class in my elementry school!! Again, thank you!!
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1)_TOM AND ANA IS THE RICHEST COUPLE
2)_TOM AND ANA ARE THE RICHEST COUPLE
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