Comparison 1
Nguyễn Phước Anh Thư
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Revision
Comparison 2
Adj
bad
large
cheap
careful

fast
quiet
early
easy
Adv
well
narrowly
expensively
comfortably
slowly
noisily
late
hard
Adv
badly
largely
cheaply
carefully
fast
quietly

early
easily
Adj
good
narrow
expensive
comfortable
slow
noisy
late
hard
Form the adverbs from the adjectives given
Comparison 3
Revision
The position of adj & Adv
* Adj:
S + Be + Adj
She is beautiful
S + V + Adj + Noun
I met a beautiful girl at the party
* Adv:
S + V + Adv
She sings beautifully
Comparison 4
Revision
The degrees of Comparisons of
adjectives and adverbs
I. The equality form (so saùnh baèng)
II. The comparative form (so saùnh hôn)
III. The superlative form (so saùnh nhaát)

Comparison 5
I. The equality form (so saùnh baèng)
example
- She is as old as I am
- He doesn’t drive as / so carefully as you do
S + V + AS + Adj / adv + AS +
S + (not V) + SO + Adj / adv + AS + …
Comparison 6
II. The comparative form(so saùnh hôn)
•
example
The lessons this year are longer and more difficult than
those last year
S + V + short adj / adv + ER + THAN
S + V + MORE + long adj / adv + THAN
Comparison 7
III. The superlative form(so saùnh baäc nhaát)
•
example
- Winter is the coldest season in the year
- Dong xuyen hotel is the most comfortable in our city
S + V + THE + short adj / adv + EST + …
S + V + THE MOST + long adj / adv + …
Comparison 8
The degrees of comparisons of Adj & Adv
I. The equality form (so saùnh baèng)
S + V + AS + Adj / adv + AS + …
She is as old as I am
He doesn’t drive as/ so carefully as you do
II. The comparative form(so saùnh hôn)

S + V + short adj / adv + ER + THAN…
S + V + MORE + long adj / adv + THAN…
The lessons this year are longer and more difficult than those last year
III. The superlative form(so saùnh baäc nhaát)
S + V + THE short adj / adv + EST . . .…
S + V + THE MOST + long adj / adv + ….
Winter is the coldest season in the year
I think Dong xuyen hotel is the most comfortable in our city
Comparison 9

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Notes:
•
large larger largest
•
big bigger biggest
•
happy happier happiest
•
good / well better best .
•
bad / badly worse worst .
•
many / much more most .
•
little less least .
•
far farther farthest (khoảng cách)
•
further furthest (thời gian)

•
old older oldest (tuổi tác )
•
elder eldest (cấp bậc & tuổi tác)
Comparison 10
1. Look at the pictures below, then put
the adjectives in parentheses in to the
suitable form of comparison
Comparison 11
1. July is (tall)__________________ Cindy.
2. Mary is (young) ________________ of the three.
3. Cindy is (fat) ________________ July.
Cindy
July
Mary
as tall as
the youngest
fatter than
Comparison 12
4. The textbook is (thin) ___________ the dictionary
5. The novel isn’t (cheap)____________ the textbook
6. The dictionary is (expensive) _______________
of all.
1
0
$
30$
thinner than
so/as cheap as
the most expensive

5$
Comparison 13
7. The black briefcase is ( heavy) ______________ of the four
8. The brown briefcase is (big) ____________ the orange one
9. The blue briefcase is (small) _____________ the brown one
6 kg
3 kg
4 kg
2 kg
smaller than
as big as
the heaviest
Comparison 14
10. In Mathematics, Jim is (bad) ____________ Ann
11. Ann is (good)__________ David
12. Jane is (good) ___________ student in her group
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good 8
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5 - 1 = 4
6 - 2 = 4

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worse than
as good as
the best
Comparison 15
2. Identify the one underlined part that is not correct in standard
English
1. Russia is the larger country in the world
A B C D
2. My sister doesn’t type so fastly as you do.
A B C D
3. Is monkeys the most intelligent among the animals ?
A B C D
4. She walks slowlier than her husband does.
A B C D
5. Miss White is the most pretty woman in my office.
A B C D
6. June sings as better as she did 5 years ago
A B C D

fast
Are
more slowly
prettiest
well
B
largest
C
A
B
C
B
Comparison 16
V. Production
Make sentences about your friends and about
things around you, using comparisons
Ex:
-
Mai is as tall as Lan
-
Your schoolbag is bigger than mine
1. My dress / long / her dress
2. He / hard-working / I
3. In English, he / good student / in class
Comparison 17
Homework
Complete the sentence in such a way that it
means as exactly as the one given.
1. He drives more carefully than you .
∀

→
You _____________________________ .
2. I don’t cook so well as my husband does
∀
→
My husband _______________________ .
3. Your dress is more expensive than mine .
∀
→
My dress __________________________.
4. Nothing in life is as important as peace .
∀
→
Peace _____________________________ .
5. Cindy doesn’t dance so gracefully as June.
∀
→
June _____________________________
don’t drive so /as carefully as he does
cooks better than I do
isn’t so / as expensive as yours
dances more gracefully than Cindy
is the most important thing in life
Comparison 18
Sûee you next time.
Sûee you next time.
Comparison 19
6. No other person in my family is as pretty as Sally.
→ Sally _______________________ in my family.
7. Chemistry is more interesting than Mathematics .

→ Mathematics___________________________.
8. In the garden, no other flower is as beautiful as rose
→ In the garden,____________________________ of all.
9.French food is better than English food .
→ English food ____________________________.
10.I didn’t spend as much money as you did.
→ You _________________________.
is the prettiest person
isn’t so / as good as French food
isn’t so / as interesting as chemistry
rose is the most beautiful flower

spent more money than I did