UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE MOÇAMBIQUE

INSTITUTO DE EDUCAÇÃO A DISTÂNCIA

LICENCIATURA EM ENSINO DE PORTUGUES

Research about Comparisons in language use.

Nome do estudante: Ana Rosária Lino Francisco

Código: 708237614

Cadeira: Inglês

Quelimane, Setembro de 2023

 UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE MOÇAMBIQUE

INSTITUTO DE EDUCAÇÃO A DISTÂNCIA

LICENCIATURA EM ENSINO DE PORTUGUES

Research about Comparisons in language use.

Nome do estudante: Ana Rosária Lino Francisco

Quelimane, Setembro de 2023

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Índice
Introduction ............................................................................................................................................. 5

Objectives................................................................................................................................................ 5

Comparison .............................................................................................................................................. 6

Adjective ................................................................................................................................................. 6

Definition ................................................................................................................................................ 6

Forms of Adjectives – Degrees of Comparison ...................................................................................... 7

Comparative and superlative adjectives .................................................................................................. 7

Superlative adjectives.............................................................................................................................. 8

Conclusion............................................................................................................................................... 9

Bibliography.......................................................................................................................................... 10

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Introduction
Making comparisons is about taking a look at characteristics or qualities that show the
similarities between living things, objects, or anything else. In the supermarket, people make
comparisons based on price and ingredients. Lots of essays and articles make comparisons:
between different politicians, bands, movies, athletes, and even whole era. Many teachers ask
students to write comparisons in essays. Adjective is a word that describes a noun or noun
phrase or pronoun and provides more information. Basically, A adjective tells the
characteristics of a noun or noun phrase or pronoun. Its semantic role is to change the
information given by the noun. Adjectives are usually placed before the nouns they describe.

Objectives
General:

 Talk About Comparison adjective

Specific

 Conceptualize adjectives
 Define Adjectives and write about its importance in language use
 Identify Superlative degree.

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Comparison
Comparisons can be broken down grammatically and logically.

A comparison aims to measure the similarities of two or more things.

In doing so, a comparison can highlight contrasts as well. This is why, sometimes, you will see
comparisons paired with contrasts rhetorically.

When writing an essay, you will use comparison in a grammatical manner in order to create logical
arguments. Start with understanding the grammar.

Types of Comparisons in English Grammar

There are two types of comparison in English grammar: the comparative and the superlative.

Comparative comparisons indicate a relationship of more or less between two things.

Here is an example of a comparative comparison.

The Enterprise is a larger ship than the Voyager.

On the other hand...

Superlative comparisons indicate a relationship of most or least within a group of things.

Here is an example of a superlative comparison.

The Enterprise is the largest ship in the fleet.

In these examples, follow the adjective (large).

Adjective

Definition
According to the Cambridge Dictionary, an adjective is defined as “a word that describes a
noun or pronoun.” The Collins Dictionary gives a more elaborate definition. According to it,
“an adjective is a word such as „big‟, „ dead‟, or „ financial‟ that describes a person or thing,
or gives extra information about them. Adjectives usually come before nouns or after link
verbs.”

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The Oxford Learner‟s Dictionary defines an adjective as “a word that describes a person or
thing, for example „big‟, „red‟ and „clever‟ in a big house, red wine and a clever idea.” An
adjective is “a word belonging to one of the major form classes in any of numerous languages
and typically serving as a modifier of a noun to denote a quality of the thing named, to
indicate its quantity or extent, or to specify a thing as distinct from something else”, according
to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.

Forms of Adjectives – Degrees of Comparison

There are three forms of adjectives or rather three degrees of comparison. The are:

Positive or Absolute Form

 Comparative Form
 Superlative Form
An adjective is a word that modifies or describes a noun or pronoun. Adjectives can be used
to describe the qualities of someone or something independently or in comparison to
something else.

Examples: Adjectives in a sentence

I like old houses.

The boy is tall and skinny.

Jane is smarter than her brother.

Comparative and superlative adjectives

Comparative adjectives are used to compare two things. They‟re usually formed by adding the
suffix “-er” (or “-r” if the word ends in the letter “e”). For two-syllable words that end in “y,”
the “y” is replaced with “-ier.”

Comparative adjectives can also be formed by adding “more” or “less” before an adjective
that has not been modified. The “more” form is typically used for words with two or more
syllables, while the “less” form is used for all adjectives.

Examples: Comparative adjectives in a sentence

 Simon‟s essay is longer than Claire‟s.

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  The room is cozier with the fire lit and less cozy without it.
 I have never met a more honorable person.

Superlative adjectives
Are used to indicate that something has the most or least of a specific quality. They‟re
typically preceded by the definite article “the” and usually formed by adding the suffix “-est”
(or “-st” if the word ends in the letter “e”). For two-syllable words that end in “y,” the “y” is
replaced with “-iest.”

Superlative adjectives can also be formed by adding “most” or “least” before an adjective that
has not been modified. The “most” form is typically used for words with two or more
syllables, while the “least” form is used for all adjectives.

Example:

He is the shortest of all the students.

My friend and I spoke for the longest time in years.

The Burj Khalifa is the tallest building in the world.

F.riends is the most watched series.

Resume

Adjetive Comparative Superlative

tall taller tallest

fat fatter fattest

big bigger biggest

sad sadder saddes

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Conclusion
At the end of this work I learned that adjective comes from Latin nōmen adjectīvum,a calque
of Ancient Greek: ἐπίθετον ὄνομα (surname), romanized: In the grammatical tradition of
Latin and Greek, because adjectives were inflected for gender, number, and case like nouns (a
process called declension), they were considered a type of noun. The words that are today
typically called nouns were then called substantive nouns (nōmen substantīvum). The terms
noun substantive and noun adjective were formerly used in English but are now obsolete.

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Bibliography
Hurt, Jonh. (2010). Introduction to English grammar. UNITIVA University teaching
Cambrige 2st edition

______________________________________Dictionary, of inglish. (s/d)

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