Degree of Comparison

Degree of Comparison

There are two ways you can do to show the level of quality of the adjective and adverbs. There are : 

A. COMPARATIVES

1. Adding the adjective suffix –er and adverb that have 1 syllable / 2 syllables ending in-er,-le,-ow,-y.

adjective	fast – faster
	funny – funnier
adverb	hard – harder

2. Adding more words before the adjective and adverb that have 3 or more syllables.

adjective	expensive – more expensive
	beautiful – more beautiful
adverb	quickly – more quickly

B. SUPERLATIVES

1. Adding the suffix -est to adjective and adverb that have 1 syllable / 2 syllables ending in-er,-le,-ow,-y.

adjective	fast – fastest
	funny – funniest
adverb	hard – hardest

2. Adding the most words before the adjective and adverb that have 3 or more syllables.

adjective	expensive – the most expensive
	beautiful – the most beautiful
adverb	quickly – the most quickly

There are some adjective that has the shape comparison is not fix (irregular comparative forms) :

bad	worse	worst
good	better	best
many	more	most
little	less	least
old	older/ elder	oldest/ eldest
far	farther/ further	farthest/ furthest