Lesson 5 The Comparative Degree and the Superlative Degree
一 let’s read passage.(107)
ASSISTANT: Do you like this dress, madam?
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LADY: I like the colour very much. It's lovely dress, but it's too small for me.
ASSISTANT: What about this one? It's a lovely dress. It's very smart.
Short skirts are in fashion now. Would you like to try it?
LADY: All right.
LADY: I'm afraid this green dress is too small for me as well.
It's smaller than the blue one.
LADY: I don't like the colour either. It doesn't suit me at all. I think the blue dress is prettier.
LADY: Could you show me another blue dress? I want a dress like that one, but it must be my size.
ASSISTANT: I'm afraid I haven't got a larger dress.
This is the largest dress in the shop.
一 形容词的比较级及其形式。
构成方法 | 例词 |
2015上海高考原级 | 比较级 | 最高级 |
单音节词末尾一般加-er和-est | clean | 不可剥夺 cleaner | cleanest |
单音节词末位以-e结尾，只加-r 和-st | Nice cute | Nicer cuter | Nicest cutest |
闭音节词末尾只有一个辅音字母，再加-er 和 -est | Big Hot passawaythin | Bigger Hotter thinner | Biggest恶作剧英文 hottest thinnest |
少数以-y, -er, -ow, -ble 结尾的双音节词，末尾加-er和-est(以-y结尾的词，如-y前是辅音字母，则变-y为-I,再加-er和-est) | Happy Clever Narrow able | Happier Cleverer Narrower abler | Happiest Cleverest Narrowest ablest |
其他双音节词和多音节词都应该在前面加more和most | Difficult critical | More difficult More critical | 澳大利亚留学价格Most difficult Most critical |
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二 形容词比较级的用法
比较级用于二者的比较， 其结构是：含有形容词比较级的主句+ 从属连句than引导的从句（从句中常省去意义上和主句相同的部分）。
例如：
Today is hotter than yesterday.
This city is larger than that one.
This dress is longer.
三 形容词最高级的用法
表示一方与多方之间某种性质和特征的比较，必须带定冠词。 常有介词短语或定语从句表示比较范围。
He is the oldest man I’ve ever known.
He was the most handsome of the Smith boys.
We found her the cleverest in the school.
He is the oldest of the three.
Women are busiest at home.
四 不规则形容词的比较级和最高级
1 不规则
原级 | 比较级 | 最高级 |
good | better | Best |
well | Better | best |
bad | wor | worst四六级报名网 |
many | more | most |
much | more | most |
little | less | least |
far | farther/further | farthest/furthest |
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2 形容词前加less和least，则表示“较不”和“最不”。
difficult less difficult least difficult
interesting less interesting least interesting
3 可数名词的比和高用 more, most; fewer, fewest (many, few)
不可数名词的比和高用 more，most；less，least (much, little)
I’ve made more mistakes than you have.
I’ve made fewer mistakes than she has, and you have made the fewest.
I‘ve got more water than you have, and he has got the most.
I’ve got less water than she has, and you’ve got the least.
五 形容词的比较用法
形容词的比较形式有3种：
较高比较级（more interesting，the most interesting）；较低比较级（less interesting，the least interesting）以及原级比较级（as interesting as）
1 两者某方面程度相同，用“as+ 形容词原级+ as”同级比较的结构。在as…as中间使用的形容词或副词一定要用原级, 中间也可以使用名词，但要遵循以下规则：
as+ adj. + a (n)+n. (单)+as He is as brave a man as a hero.
as +many +n.(复)+as She read as many as you did.
as+ much +n. (不可数) +as He drank as much water as he could.
有时为了避免重复,在as后的从句中常用the one代替单数可数名词, 用tho 代替复数名词,棕色的英文用that 代替不可数名词和某些可数名词.如:
I hope it was as good as the one you give me.
The girls in your class are as pretty as tho in our class.
The climate of Guilin is as good as that of Kunming.
否定原级用not as…as结构, 也可用less…than结构.如:
He does not run as fast as Tom. = He runs less fast than Tom.他没有汤姆跑的快.
This question is not as important as that one. = This question is less important than that one. 这个问题没有那个问题重要.
2 eminence表示一方是另一方的若干倍，用“倍数+ as+ 原级 +as” 的结构
Our school is twice as big as their.
This room is three times as large as that one.
3 比较级前可以有表示程度的或数量的状语来修饰比较级。 常用的状语有：much，far，a bit, a little, a great deal, still, even, two years, three times.
This story is even more interesting than that one.
We have a much better life now.
Today is a little colder than yesterday.
4 “the + 比较级”：越……,越……
stayalive
The harder you work, the better you will get.
5 “比较级+比较级”： 越来越……
more and more, stronger and stronger
happier and happier smarter and smarter
Let’s do exerci:
1. This wooden ca isn’t _____ that iron ca.
A. so light as B. as lighter than
C. more light than D. so light than
2. The fare was _____ expensive than he thought it would be.
A. less as expensive B. less expensive
C. not as less expensive D. as less expensive
3. The market _____ it had been in the morning.
A. was as crowded B. was not crowded as
C. wasn’t as crowded as D. wasn’t so crowded
4. The cond statement has _____ meaning as the first one.
A. not the B. the same C. as the same D. not as the same
5. When winter is approaching, days are getting _____.
A. shorter and shorter B. more and more short
C> the shortest D. so shorter
二 写出下列形容词的比较级和最高级.
原级 比较级 最高级
