short words: -er, -est | big – bigger – the biggest thin – thinner – the thinnest short – shorter – the shortest | ||
words ending in – y: -ier, -iest | easy – easier – the easiest happy – happier – the happiest heavy – heavier – the heaviest | ||
long words: more, the most | important – more important – the most important general – more general – the most general | ||
both ways for some adjectives (stupid, gentle, friendly, cruel, common, pleasant, quiet, shallow) | simpler – the simplest simple more simple- the most simple narrower – the narrowest narrow more narrow – the most narrow cleverer – the cleverest clever more clever – the most clever | ||
real right wrong | real - morereal - the most real right - moreright - the mostright wrong - more wrong - the mostwrong | ||
a bit/ a littlå + comparative (íåìíîãî) | a bit | bigger older more difficult | than |
much/ a lot/ far + comparative (íàìíîãî, ãîðàçäî) | It’s much cheaper. – Ýòî íàìíîãî äåøåâëå. The film is far better than the book. – Ôèëüì ãîðàçäî ëó÷øå, ÷åì êíèãà. | ||
By far + superlative (ãîðàçäî) | He is by far the best student in the class. – Îí ãîðàçäî ëó÷øå, ÷åì âñå îñòàëüíûå ñòóäåíòû. |