Level A1
Comparative Adjectives
Comparing two things: taller, more beautiful, than.
An elephant is bigger than a dog.
Look: bigger than. Big becomes bigger, and after it comes than.
Forms
tall → taller— short words: + erbig → bigger · nice → nicer · happy → happier— spelling: the last letter doubles in big; after -e just add r; consonant + y becomes -ierbeautiful → more beautiful— longer words: more + wordgood → better · bad → worse— special wordsbigger than a dog— after the adjective: than
A common mistake
Wrong: My dog is more big than your cat.
Right: My dog is bigger than your cat.
Big is a short word, so we don't need more. We say: My dog is bigger than your cat.
More examples
My brother is taller than me.
Tall is a short word: taller.
This book is more interesting than that one.
Interesting is a long word: more interesting.