Degree Comparison

There are three kinds of comparison:
1. positive degree
2. comparative degree
3.Superlative degree 

•Positive Degree → is used to compare two things that         are equal. (digunakan untuk         membandingkan 2 hal yang setara)

  The pattern

•Comparative Degree → is used to compare two       things that are not equal.

  (digunakan untuk membandingkan 2 hal yang tidak setara)

  The Pattern for 1 syllable

  S + to be + adj + er + than

  S + verb + adv + er + than

Examples

1.Today is hotter than yesterday

2.Bill runs faster than Bob

3.This exercise is easier than the last one 

4.Andi works harder than his brother

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  The pattern for more than two syllables

  S + to be + more + adj + than

  S + verb + more + adv + than

  S + to be + as + adj + as

  S + verb + as + adv + as

Examples

1.My book is as interesting as yours

2.His car runs as fast as a race car

3.Their house is as big as that one

Examples

1.This red dress is more comfortable than the white

2.He speaks Spanish more fluently than I

3.This year’s exhibit is more impressive than the last year’s

4.He visits his family more frequently than she does

• Superlative Degree→ is used to compare one thing with          two or more other things.

  (digunakan untuk membandingkan sesuatu dengan 2 atau lebih sesuatu yang lain)

   The pattern for 1 syllable

  S + to be + the + adj + est

  S + verb + the + adv + est

Examples

1.John is the tallest boy in the family

2.   He works the hardest employee of all the employee in this office.

  The pattern for more than two syllables

  S + to be + the most + adj

  S + verb + the most + adv

Examples

1.That was the most boring film I have ever seen

2.Sally dances the most graceful of all the participant

NOTE

* Use the form more + adjective for adjective ending in the

   following suffixes: -ed, -ful, -ing, -ish and ous (more

   useful, more boring, more cautious)

* When an adjective ends in a consonant +y, change the y

   to i and add –er or - est (happy-happier/ the happiest, dry-drier/the

  driest) and for  –some, - ow and add –er or -est (handsomer/the

  handsomest, narrower/the narrowest)

For example

1. His behavior is as bad (bad) as his brother’s.

2. New York has the most (many) tall buildings of any city in the world

3. She knits as good (good) as her mother

4. Alisa plays the violin better (good) than the other violinist