EGREES OF COMPARISON

1. BENTUK POSITIF merupakan bentuk kata sifat yang paling mendasar. Dikatakan
positif karena tidak berkaitan dengan kualitas yang superior atau inferior dibandingkan
benda atau entitas lain dalam wacana.
Rumusnya : (+) Subyek + to be (kata kerja bantu) + as (kata sifat ) as + kata benda.
Misalnya : He was as white as a sheet. (-) S+ to be (not)+ as (kata sifat) as +kata
benda.
: Your coffee is not as good as the coffee my mother makes.

2. TINGKATAN KOMPARATIF menunjukkan jumlah yang lebih besar kualitasnya

secara relatif dibandingkan sesuatu yang lain.
Fatimah is taller than her father berarti bahwa tingkat ketinggian badan
Fatimah lebih besar dibandingkan tingkat ketinggian badan ayahnya. (+) Subyek + to be
(kata kerja bantu) + kata sifat+er+than+ kata benda.
Misalnya : Ainul is cleverer than Ahmad. (+)Subyek+ to be (kata kerja bantu)+ more-
kata sifat+than+ kata benda.
: Andra is more handsome than Andri.

3. BENTUK SUPERLATIF menunjukkan kualitas yang paling besar dst, yang

membedakan dirinya dengan yang lain. (+)Subyek +to be + the most (yang paling)+kata
sifat + in/of
Misalnya : Zety is the most beautiful in her school.
Bentuk-bentuk yang tetap/beraturan, misalnya:

Bentuk-bentuk yang tidak befraturan, misalnya:

 COMPARISONS

The ways to form adjectives/adverbs of the comparative and

superlative degree
- Add er/est after the adjectives/adverbs in the following cases:
+ Adjectives/adverbs of one syllable

EX: wise wiser wisest

cold colder coldest
+ Adjectives/adverbs of two syllables ending in y, ow, er, le
EX: pretty prettier prettiest
narrow narrower narrowest
clever cleverer cleverest
noble nobler noblest
+ Adjectives/adverbs of two syllables with the stress falling on the second one.
EX: polite politer politest
severe severer severest
-
+ Add more/most before the adjectives/adverbs of other cases and of 3
or more syllables
EX: handsome more handsome most handsome
beautiful more beautiful most beautiful
Note:
- If the one-syllable adjectives/adverbs end in vowel+ consonant (except:
h, w, x, y) , double the consonant before adding er/est
EX: fat fatter fattest

- If adjectives/adverbs end in consonant + y, we change y to i and

add er/est
EX: happy happier happiest
- If adjectives/adverbs end in vowel + y, we just add er/est
EX: gay gayer gayest
- If adjectives end in the suffixes of -ed, -ing, -ful, -ish, -ous and past participles used
as adjectives, we add more/most before them to form

the comparative and superlative degree

.
EX: interesting more interesting most interesting
bent more bent most bent
Irregular Forms of Comparison
Positive form Comparative form Superlative form
Good Well (adj)
Well (adv)
Better Best

Bad
Badly
Worse Worst

Many
Much
More Most
Little Less Least
Old Elder (preferably used in family) Eldest Prepared by Tran Anh Thong Department
of Foreign Languages
Older (other cases) Oldest
Far
Farther (for distance)
Further (implying abstract
meaning)
Farthest
Furthest
Late
Later
Latter (order)
Latest
Last

more + and + more adj

EX: It is getting darker and darker.
She looks more and more beautiful.
EX: the sooner, the better
the more intelligent, the lazier