Comparative adjectives Erica is taller than Lucia The

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Comparative adjectives • Erica is taller than Lucia. • The Earth is hotter than

Comparative adjectives • Erica is taller than Lucia. • The Earth is hotter than Mars. • A car is heavier than a motorcycle. • Silver cars are more common than yellow cars.

Short adjectives • 1 syllable: short, tall, big, small, fat, thin, hot, cold, cheap,

Short adjectives • 1 syllable: short, tall, big, small, fat, thin, hot, cold, cheap, safe, fast, slow, new, old, dry, wet • 2 syllables, ending in –y: healthy, heavy, risky, funny, friendly, noisy

Short adjectives 1. Erica is taller than Lucia. 2. The Earth is hotter than

Short adjectives 1. Erica is taller than Lucia. 2. The Earth is hotter than Mars. 3. A car is heavier than a motorcycle.

Long adjectives • 2 syllables: common, famous, handsome • 3+ syllables: popular, intelligent, beautiful,

Long adjectives • 2 syllables: common, famous, handsome • 3+ syllables: popular, intelligent, beautiful, expensive, dangerous, aggressive, generous, serious

Long adjectives • Silver cars are more common than yellow cars. • Stephen Hawkins

Long adjectives • Silver cars are more common than yellow cars. • Stephen Hawkins is more intelligent than Carla Perez.

Irregular comparative adjectives • Good Pelé is a better footballer than Neymar. • Bad

Irregular comparative adjectives • Good Pelé is a better footballer than Neymar. • Bad Barrichello is a worse pilot than Senna. • Far Campinas is farther/further from SP than Santos

Adverbs • • • quick aggressive careful healthy bad • good • hard •

Adverbs • • • quick aggressive careful healthy bad • good • hard • fast quickly aggressively carefully healthily badly well hard fast

Adverbs • • We walk very quickly in SP. Young men drive aggressively. Old

Adverbs • • We walk very quickly in SP. Young men drive aggressively. Old ladies drive carefully. People in Rio live healthily. • The staff at IPT speak English very well. • They work very hard. • They write reports very fast.

Comparative adverbs Most adverbs are long! • We drive more quickly in SP than

Comparative adverbs Most adverbs are long! • We drive more quickly in SP than in Bauru. • Pit-bulls behave more aggressively than poodles. • People drive more carefully after a near-accident.

Comparative adverbs A few (usually irregular) adverbs are short • The Japanese work harder

Comparative adverbs A few (usually irregular) adverbs are short • The Japanese work harder than the Canadians. • Some taxi drivers drive faster than F 1 pilots. • You speak English better than the people in the elementary level. • You write in English worse than in Portuguese.

Comparatives of equality • My brother is not as tall as me / as

Comparatives of equality • My brother is not as tall as me / as I am. • She is as beautiful as Nicole Kidman. • He doesn’t drive as fast as me / as I do. • We don’t work as hard as the Japanese. • She drives as carefully as an old lady. as long as = on the condition that as well as = and also