{"id":41,"date":"2019-09-14T13:04:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T11:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prevodioci.co.rs\/en\/blog\/?p=41"},"modified":"2019-09-16T00:26:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T22:26:52","slug":"comparison-of-adjectives-in-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prevodioci.co.rs\/en\/blog\/grammar-mind-maps\/comparison-of-adjectives-in-short\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind Map: Comparison of Adjectives in short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, what do you think? Which animal is <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">faster<\/span><\/strong>, the rabbit or the turtle? Common sense says the rabbit, but one fable says differently\u2026 Nevertheless, let us focus on some adjective forms here\u2026 (if you have forgotten what adjectives are, here are some examples: tall, beautiful, clean, clever, etc.)<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"opinion-popup-img\" href=https:\/\/www.prevodioci.co.rs\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Comparisons-MindMap.jpg  data-size=\"{&quot;w&quot;:1920,&quot;h&quot;:1280}\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prevodioci.co.rs\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Comparisons-MindMap.jpg\" alt=\"Comparisons Mind Map\" width=\"1000\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.prevodioci.co.rs\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Comparisons-MindMap.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.prevodioci.co.rs\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Comparisons-MindMap-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.prevodioci.co.rs\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Comparisons-MindMap-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.prevodioci.co.rs\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Comparisons-MindMap-716x376.jpg 716w, https:\/\/www.prevodioci.co.rs\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Comparisons-MindMap-820x431.jpg 820w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAnd, of course, adjectives have a comparative and superlative form. (ex: fast \u2013faster \u2013 the fastest)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nYou must have already noticed the two worms on each side of the central drawing which represent adjectives, short and long ones (adjectives with one and two syllables,\u00a0 and adjectives with more than two syllables, respectively).<\/p>\n<p>Basically, all you have to learn about adjective comparisons for now is the following: there is <strong>one rule pertaining to adjectives with one and two syllables<\/strong> (the small warm) and <strong>another rule pertaining to adjectives with more than two syllables <\/strong>(the longer warm).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Now, take a look at the little worm on the right side and the (we will always start reading a map clockwise). As you can see, the rule is to add <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u2013ER<\/span><\/strong> to the adjective if you want to form the comparative form, or add <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u2013EST <\/span><\/strong>to the adjective if you want to form the superlative.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Remember: you should always use <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">THE<\/span><\/strong> with superlatives!<\/p>\n<p>Let us try out the rule for short adjectives: clean \u2013 clean<strong>ER<\/strong> \u2013 <strong>the<\/strong> clean<strong>EST<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>small \u2013 small<strong>ER<\/strong> \u2013 <strong>the<\/strong> small<strong>EST<br \/>\n<\/strong>rich \u2013 rich<strong>ER<\/strong> \u2013 the rich<strong>EST<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s very easy, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Let\u2019s continue. Now have a look at the next light blue branch related to spelling. The rule that you should now is: when the adjective ends in consonant, vowel, consonant, the final consonant will double.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For example: big \u2013 bi<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">gg<\/span><\/strong>er \u2013 the bi<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">gg<\/span><\/strong>est<\/p>\n<p>(Note: vowels are: a, e, i, o, u; the rest are consonants).<\/p>\n<p>One more thing, if the adjective ends in <strong><em>y<\/em>,<\/strong> change the <strong><em>y<\/em> <\/strong>to <strong><em>i <\/em><\/strong>and add \u00a0&#8211;<strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">er <\/span><\/em><\/strong>or &#8211;<strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">est<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Now, focus on the green branch and the long worm on it. As I have already mentioned, it is a visual representative of adjectives with more than two syllables, or simply, long adjectives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Since it would be too much to add suffixes to already long words, the rule is: make two words \u2013 the comparative form: <strong>MORE<\/strong> + adjective; the superlative form \u2013 <strong>THE MOST<\/strong>+ adjective.<\/p>\n<p>Let us try out tre rule: beautiful \u2013 <strong>MORE<\/strong> beautiful \u2013 <strong>THE MOST<\/strong> beautiful<br \/>\nimportant \u2013<strong> MORE <\/strong>important<strong> \u2013 THE MOST <\/strong>important<\/p>\n<p>Again, it is so sipmle!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>And, finally, in every language there are some exceptions. Here they are (the purple branch) when we talk about adjectives:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Good \u2013 better- the best<\/li>\n<li>Bad \u2013 worse \u2013 the worst<\/li>\n<li>Little \u2013less \u2013 the least<\/li>\n<li>Far \u2013 further \u2013 the furthest<\/li>\n<li>Much\/many \u2013 more \u2013 the most<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note: when we talk about the adjective <em>far<\/em>, it is worth mentioning that the comparative form can also be <em>farther<\/em>, and superlative the <em>farthest<\/em> (only in contexts relating to distance), but <em>further<\/em> and <em>the furthest<\/em> can be used in all contexts (both distance and tiem), so I just put this one form here, to make it easier.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s it! Let\u2019s repeat just the basic rules:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For short adjectives, add <strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u2013ER<\/span><\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u2013EST<\/span><\/em><\/strong> to make the comparative and superlative form. And don\u2019t forget <strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the<\/span> <\/em><\/strong>in the superlative!<\/li>\n<li>For long adjectives, use <strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">MORE<\/span><\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the MOST<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, what do you think? Which animal is faster, the rabbit or the turtle? Common sense says the rabbit, but one fable says differently\u2026 Nevertheless, let us focus on some adjective forms here\u2026 (if you have forgotten what adjectives are, here are some examples: tall, beautiful, clean, clever, etc.) And, of course, adjectives have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar-mind-maps"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prevodioci.co.rs\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prevodioci.co.rs\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prevodioci.co.rs\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prevodioci.co.rs\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prevodioci.co.rs\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.prevodioci.co.rs\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/www.prevodioci.co.rs\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prevodioci.co.rs\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prevodioci.co.rs\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prevodioci.co.rs\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}