Degrees Of Comparison
Positive Degree
Merupakan perbandingan dua nilai yang sama , biasanya menggunakan dua pola, yaitu as ... as ... dan the same as ...
contoh :
- Solo is as beautiful as Surabaya
- Her love is as much as mine
- Sony and toshiba have the same price
Comparative Degree
Menyatakan perbandingan bahwa sesuatu lebih atau kurang dari yang lain. Beberapa cara untuk mengekspresikan perbandingan tersebut antara lain :
1. Menggunakan kata penghubung than
2. Menambahkan akhiran -er pada kata sifat yang terdiri dari satu atau dua suku kata (misal : short, tall, dsb)
3. Menambahkan kata depan more apabila kata sifat lebih dari tiga suku atau apabila yang dibandingkan adalah kata keterangan
contoh :
- Rio is much taller than lely
- Notebook is more expensive than personal computer
- Marry finished the test more quickly than jack
Superlative Degree
Digunakan untu menyatakan hal yang paling ter- dari segala hal lainnya yang menjadi perbandingan
1. Menambahkan kata sandang the di depan kata sifat ataupun di depan kata keterangan
2. Menambahkan akhiran -est pada kata sifat yang terdiri dari satu atau dua suku kata (misal : short, tall, dsb)
3. Menambahkan kata depan most apabila kata sifat lebih dari tiga suku atau apabila yang dibandingkan adalah kata keterangan
contoh :
- He is the smastest boys in my class
- Ina is the most beautiful girls in my school
- Hani finished the test the most quickly
Exercise on Comparison of Adjectives
Fill in the correct form of the words in
brackets (comparative or superlative).
- My house is (big) than yours.
- This flower is (beautiful) than that one.
- This is the (interesting) book I have ever read.
- Non-smokers usually live (long) than smokers.
- Which is the (dangerous) animal in the world?
- A holiday by the sea is (good) than a holiday in the mountains.
- It is strange but often a coke is (expensive) than a beer.
- Who is the (rich) woman on earth?
- The weather this summer is even (bad) than last summer.
- He was the (clever) thief of all.
- Bulgaria is an European state founded in 681.
- Sofia is the city in Bulgaria.
- Of the two spa hotels, the Bankya Spa Palace is .
- The Boyana Church is church in Mount Vitosha near Sofia.
- The Lom River is than the Iskar River.
- The cobbled streets in Old Town in Veliko Tarnovo are than the streets in Old Town in Plovdiv.
- Bulgariana is the Randall Baker’s book translated into Bulgarian.
- This year we are taking an vacation in Sinemorets, at the seaside.
- Turkish coffee is in Bulgaria than in Turkey.
- English is than German.
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