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======Further information======
=====Introduction=====
<html><p><img height="127" id="1692" style="width: 110px; height: 80px;" alt="Image" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/1692_091e789914201c8e0d8fb31c449ee7d0.jpg">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'><strong>The white egg is <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">the </span>big<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">gest </span>and the red egg is <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">the </span>small<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">est.</span></strong></span>&nbsp;</p><p><br></p></html>
=====Definition and uses=====
<html><p><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><strong>We use superlative adjectives of superiority and inferiority to compare more than two things or people.</strong></span>&nbsp;<br></p></html>
=====Construction=====
<html><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>The construction usually depends on the number of syllables.</span></b>&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">&nbsp;</p><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'><strong>Superiority</strong></span></p></span> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: red; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><table style="border: currentColor; border-image: none; border-collapse: collapse; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-border-insideh: .5pt solid windowtext; mso-border-insidev: .5pt solid windowtext;" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" table=""><tbody><tr><td width="177" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border: 1pt solid windowtext; border-image: none; width: 133pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;"><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>One-syllable<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></b></p></td><td width="189" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: windowtext windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 5cm; background-color: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;"><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>'the' + adjective + 'est' </span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>the</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> cold<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">est</span></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p></td><td width="265" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: windowtext windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 7cm; background-color: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;"><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Antarctica is <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">the</span> cold<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">est</span> place in the world.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td width="177" valign="top" style="border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 133pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;"><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Two-syllables and ending in a consonant and 'y'<span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);"></span></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p></td><td width="189" valign="top" style="border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 5cm; background-color: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;"><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>'the' + adjective + 'est' </span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>the</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> bus<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">iest</span></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p></td><td width="265" valign="top" style="border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 7cm; background-color: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;"><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>September is <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">the</span> bus<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">iest</span> month for us.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td width="177" valign="top" style="border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 133pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;"><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Others with two syllables</span></b></p></td><td width="189" valign="top" style="border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 5cm; background-color: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;"><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>'the most' + adjective </span></b></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>the most</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> honest <span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160);"></span></span></b></p></td><td width="265" valign="top" style="border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 7cm; background-color: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;"><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>She's <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">the most</span> honest person in the department.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td width="177" valign="top" style="border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 133pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;"><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>More than two syllables</span></b></p></td><td width="189" valign="top" style="border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 5cm; background-color: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;"><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>'the most' + adjective </span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>the most </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>expensive</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></p></td><td width="265" valign="top" style="border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 7cm; background-color: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;"><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>This is <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">the most </span>expensive car in the world.</span></b></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: red; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br></p><p>&nbsp;<span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'><strong>Inferiority</strong></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><table style="border: currentColor; border-image: none; border-collapse: collapse; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-border-insideh: .5pt solid windowtext; mso-border-insidev: .5pt solid windowtext;" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" table=""><tbody><tr><td width="205" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border: 1pt solid windowtext; border-image: none; width: 154pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;"><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>All adjectives</span></b></p></td><td width="205" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: windowtext windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 154.05pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;"><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>'the least' + adjective</span></b></p></td><td width="205" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: windowtext windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 154.05pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;"><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>May is <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">the least </span>busy month for us.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>She's <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">the least </span>honest person in the department. <span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160);"></span></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>This is <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">the least </span>expensive car in the world.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Note that </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>we rarely use this construction with one-syllable adjectives. It is better to use the opposite superlative of superiority. </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b></p><table style="border-collapse: collapse; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" table=""><tbody><tr><td width="308" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-image: none; width: 231.05pt; background-color: transparent;"><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>This is the least big house in the street. </span></b><span lang="EN-US"><img height="24" id="40" style="width: 18px; height: 19px;" alt="Image" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/40_457126aaf23a65c1331eea83d27fb7c4.jpg"></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p></td><td width="308" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-image: none; width: 231.05pt; background-color: transparent;"><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>This is the smallest house in the street. </span></b><span lang="EN-US"><img height="22" id="39" style="width: 21px;" alt="Image" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/39_db7196aad25f86da510b9bb08610a187.jpg"></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td width="308" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-image: none; width: 231.05pt; background-color: transparent;"><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>She has the least cheap car. </span></b><span lang="EN-US"><img height="24" id="40" style="width: 18px; height: 19px;" alt="Image" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/40_457126aaf23a65c1331eea83d27fb7c4.jpg"></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b></p></td><td width="308" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-image: none; width: 231.05pt; background-color: transparent;"><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>She has the most expensive car. </span></b><span lang="EN-US"><img height="22" id="39" style="width: 21px;" alt="Image" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/39_db7196aad25f86da510b9bb08610a187.jpg"></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td width="308" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-image: none; width: 231.05pt; background-color: transparent;"><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>It's the least good car.</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><img height="24" id="40" style="width: 18px; height: 19px;" alt="Image" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/40_457126aaf23a65c1331eea83d27fb7c4.jpg"></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b></p></td><td width="308" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-image: none; width: 231.05pt; background-color: transparent;"><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>It's the worst car.</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><img height="22" id="39" style="width: 21px;" alt="Image" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/39_db7196aad25f86da510b9bb08610a187.jpg"></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b></p></td></tr></tbody></table><br></html>
=====Two-syllable adjectives=====
<html><p><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>The comparatives and superlatives of most two-syllable adjectives are formed with 'more...than' and 'the most' but here is a list of some common ones that can also add 'er' and 'est'.&nbsp;</span></b>&nbsp;</p><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> <p> <strong> </strong><strong> </strong><strong> </strong><strong> </strong><strong> </strong><strong> </strong><strong> </strong><strong> </strong><strong> </strong><strong> </strong><strong> </strong><strong> </strong><strong> </strong><strong> </strong><strong> </strong><strong> </strong><strong> </strong><strong> </strong><strong> </strong><strong> </strong><strong> </strong><strong> </strong><strong> </strong><strong> </strong><strong> </strong><strong> </strong><strong> </strong><strong> </strong><strong> </strong><table style="border: currentColor; border-image: none; border-collapse: collapse; mso-border-alt: solid #4F81BD 1.0pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" table=""><tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes;"><td width="213" valign="top" style="background: rgb(79, 129, 189); border-width: 1pt medium medium 1pt; border-style: solid none none solid; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(79, 129, 189); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 159.6pt;"><strong> </strong><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><strong>Adjective</strong></span></p></td><td width="213" valign="top" style="background: rgb(79, 129, 189); border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 159.6pt;"><strong> </strong><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><strong>Comparative</strong></span></p></td><td width="213" valign="top" style="background: rgb(79, 129, 189); border-width: 1pt 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid solid none none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 159.6pt;"><strong> </strong><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><strong>Superlative</strong></span></p></td></tr><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;"><td width="213" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 159.6pt; background-color: transparent;"><strong> </strong><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><strong>clever</strong></p></td><td width="213" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt medium; border-style: solid none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 159.6pt; background-color: transparent;"><strong> </strong><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><strong>cleverer</strong></span></p><strong> </strong><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><strong>more clever</strong></span></p><strong> </strong><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></p></td><td width="213" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 159.6pt; background-color: transparent;"><strong> </strong><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><strong>the cleverest</strong></span></p><strong> </strong><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><strong>the most clever</strong></span></p></td></tr><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2;"><td width="213" valign="top" style="border-width: medium medium medium 1pt; border-style: none none none solid; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(79, 129, 189); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 159.6pt; background-color: transparent;"><strong> </strong><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><strong>gentle</strong></span></p></td><td width="213" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-image: none; width: 159.6pt; background-color: transparent;"><strong> </strong><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><strong>gentler</strong></span></p><strong> </strong><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><strong>more gentle</strong></span></p><strong> </strong><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></p></td><td width="213" valign="top" style="border-width: medium 1pt medium medium; border-style: none solid none none; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 159.6pt; background-color: transparent;"><strong> </strong><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><strong>the gentlest</strong></span></p><strong> </strong><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><strong>the most gentle</strong></span></p></td></tr><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3;"><td width="213" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 159.6pt; background-color: transparent;"><strong> </strong><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><strong>simple</strong></span></p></td><td width="213" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt medium; border-style: solid none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 159.6pt; background-color: transparent;"><strong> </strong><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><strong>simpler</strong></span></p><strong> </strong><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><strong>more simple</strong></span></p><strong> </strong><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></p></td><td width="213" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 159.6pt; background-color: transparent;"><strong> </strong><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><strong>the simplest</strong></span></p><strong> </strong><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><strong>the most simple</strong></span></p></td></tr><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 4;"><td width="213" valign="top" style="border-width: medium medium medium 1pt; border-style: none none none solid; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(79, 129, 189); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 159.6pt; background-color: transparent;"><strong> </strong><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><strong>friendly</strong></span></p></td><td width="213" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-image: none; width: 159.6pt; background-color: transparent;"><strong> </strong><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><strong>friendlier</strong></span></p><strong> </strong><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><strong>more friendly</strong></span></p></td><td width="213" valign="top" style="border-width: medium 1pt medium medium; border-style: none solid none none; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 159.6pt; background-color: transparent;"><strong> </strong><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><strong>the friendliest</strong></span></p><strong> </strong><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><strong>the most friendly</strong></span></p><strong> </strong><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></p></td></tr><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 5;"><td width="213" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 159.6pt; background-color: transparent;"><strong> </strong><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><strong>quiet</strong></span></p></td><td width="213" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt medium; border-style: solid none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 159.6pt; background-color: transparent;"><strong> </strong><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><strong>quieter</strong></span></p><strong> </strong><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><strong>more quiet</strong></span></p></td><td width="213" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 159.6pt; background-color: transparent;"><strong> </strong><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><strong>the quietest</strong></span></p><strong> </strong><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><strong>the most quiet</strong></span></p><strong> </strong><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></p></td></tr><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 6;"><td width="213" valign="top" style="border-width: medium medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: none none solid solid; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 159.6pt; background-color: transparent;"><strong> </strong><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><strong>narrow</strong></span></p></td><td width="213" valign="top" style="border-width: medium medium 1pt; border-style: none none solid; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(79, 129, 189); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 159.6pt; background-color: transparent;"><strong> </strong><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><strong>narrower</strong></span></p><strong> </strong><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><strong>more narrow</strong></span></p><strong> </strong><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></p></td><td width="213" valign="top" style="border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 159.6pt; background-color: transparent;"><strong> </strong><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><strong>the narrowest</strong></span></p><strong> </strong><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><strong>the most narrow</strong></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p><br></p></span></b><p><br></p></html>
=====Irregular adjectives=====
<html><table style="border: currentColor; border-image: none; border-collapse: collapse; mso-border-alt: solid #4F81BD 1.0pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" table=""> <tbody> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes;"> <td width="213" valign="top" style="background: rgb(79, 129, 189); border-width: 1pt medium medium 1pt; border-style: solid none none solid; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(79, 129, 189); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 159.6pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p></td> <td width="213" valign="top" style="background: rgb(79, 129, 189); border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 159.6pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Comparative</span></b></p></td> <td width="213" valign="top" style="background: rgb(79, 129, 189); border-width: 1pt 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid solid none none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 159.6pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Superlative</span></b></p></td></tr> <tr style="height: 19.85pt; mso-yfti-irow: 1;"> <td width="213" style="border-width: 1pt medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 159.6pt; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>good</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b></p></td> <td width="213" style="border-width: 1pt medium; border-style: solid none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 159.6pt; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>better</span></b></p></td> <td width="213" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 159.6pt; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>the best</span></b></p></td></tr> <tr style="height: 19.85pt; mso-yfti-irow: 2;"> <td width="213" style="border-width: medium medium medium 1pt; border-style: none none none solid; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(79, 129, 189); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 159.6pt; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>bad</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b></p></td> <td width="213" style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-image: none; width: 159.6pt; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>worse</span></b></p></td> <td width="213" style="border-width: medium 1pt medium medium; border-style: none solid none none; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 159.6pt; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>the worst</span></b></p></td></tr> <tr style="height: 19.85pt; mso-yfti-irow: 3;"> <td width="213" style="border-width: 1pt medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 159.6pt; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>far</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b></p></td> <td width="213" style="border-width: 1pt medium; border-style: solid none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 159.6pt; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>farther/further*</span></b></p></td> <td width="213" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 159.6pt; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>the farthest/furthest*</span></b></p></td></tr></tbody></table> <span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><br></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>*</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>'Farther' and farthest' refer to physical distance whilst 'further' and 'furthest' indicate a greater level or more advanced stage of something.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>However, many people use 'further' and 'furthest' in both situations. For example:</span></b></p></span><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><font face="Times New Roman"><p><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>We wanted to go to Toulouse but we didn't get <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">farther</span>/<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">further </span>south <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">than</span> Bordeaux.&nbsp;</span></strong></p><p><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>The farthest</span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>/<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">furthest</span> I can see clearly without glasses is about 3 metres.&nbsp;</span></strong></p><p><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I've been trying to write this report all morning but I can't get <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">further</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">than</span> the introduction.</span></strong></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I applied for a job with our main competitor but <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">the furthest </span>I got was the first interview.</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></p></font><p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><br></p></span></html>
=====Past participles=====
<html> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal; vertical-align: middle;"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal; vertical-align: middle;"><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;&#10;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#333333;background:white;&#10;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>If the adjective is also the past participle of a verb, we do not add 'er' or 'est' even to short, one syllable adjectives. Instead we use the rule for long adjectives.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal; vertical-align: middle;"><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&#10;"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#0000CC;&#10;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>&nbsp;</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal; vertical-align: middle;"><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;&#10;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#0000CC;background:white;&#10;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Examples </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal; vertical-align: middle;"><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&#10;"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#0000CC;&#10;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>&nbsp;</span></b></p> <table style="border-collapse:collapse;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes"> <td width="84" valign="top" style="background: rgb(79, 129, 189); border-width: 1pt 0px 0px 1pt; border-style: solid none none solid; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(79, 129, 189); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.3pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;&#10; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:white;mso-fareast-language:&#10; EN-GB'>&nbsp;Adjective</span></b></p> </td> <td width="95" valign="top" style="background: rgb(79, 129, 189); border-width: 1pt 0px 0px; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 70.9pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;&#10; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:white;mso-fareast-language:&#10; EN-GB'>Comparative</span></b></p> </td> <td width="132" valign="top" style="background: rgb(79, 129, 189); border-width: 1pt 1pt 0px 0px; border-style: solid solid none none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 99.2pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;&#10; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:white;mso-fareast-language:&#10; EN-GB'>Superlative</span></b></p> </td> <td width="292" valign="top" style="background: rgb(79, 129, 189); border-width: 1pt 1pt 0px 0px; border-style: solid solid none none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm; width: 219.2pt;"> <p align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center; line-height: 15.45pt;"><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;&#10; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";&#10; color:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Example</span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:1;height:19.85pt"> <td width="84" style="border-width: 1pt 0px 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 63.3pt; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;&#10; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>lost</span></b></p> </td> <td width="95" style="border-width: 1pt 0px; border-style: solid none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.9pt; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;&#10; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>more lost </span></b></p> </td> <td width="132" style="border-width: 1pt 0px; border-style: solid none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 99.2pt; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;&#10; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>the most lost</span></b></p> </td> <td width="292" valign="top" style="border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm; width: 219.2pt; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;&#10; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>The closer I got to the town centre the <span style="color:#0000CC">more </span>lost I became.</span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:2;height:19.85pt"> <td width="84" style="border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1pt; border-style: none none none solid; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(79, 129, 189); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 63.3pt; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;&#10; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>burnt</span></b></p> </td> <td width="95" style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border: 0px rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: none; width: 70.9pt; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;&#10; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>more burnt</span></b></p> </td> <td width="132" style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border: 0px rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: none; width: 99.2pt; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;&#10; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>the most burnt</span></b></p> </td> <td width="292" valign="top" style="border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm; width: 219.2pt; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;&#10; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>This piece of toast is <span style="color:#0000CC">more </span>burnt<span style="color:#0000CC"> than</span> the first piece.</span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:3;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes;height:19.85pt"> <td width="84" style="border-width: 1pt 0px 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 63.3pt; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;&#10; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>bored</span></b></p> </td> <td width="95" style="border-width: 1pt 0px; border-style: solid none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.9pt; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;&#10; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>more bored</span></b></p> </td> <td width="132" style="border-width: 1pt 0px; border-style: solid none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 99.2pt; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;&#10; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>the most bored</span></b></p> </td> <td width="292" valign="top" style="border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm; width: 219.2pt; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;&#10; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>She was <span style="color:#0000CC">the most </span>bored<span style="color:#0000CC"> </span>she had ever been, there was nothing for her to do.</span></b></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <br></html>
=====Intensifiers=====
<html><table style="border-collapse: collapse; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" table=""> <tbody> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes;"> <td width="149" valign="top" style="background: rgb(79, 129, 189); border-width: 1pt medium medium 1pt; border-style: solid none none solid; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(79, 129, 189); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Comparative - </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>a small difference</span></b></p></td> <td width="28" valign="top" style="background: rgb(79, 129, 189); border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 21.25pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p></td> <td width="198" valign="top" style="background: rgb(79, 129, 189); border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 148.85pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Comparative - </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>a big difference</span></b></p></td> <td width="263" valign="top" style="background: rgb(79, 129, 189); border-width: 1pt 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid solid none none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 196.95pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Examples<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"></span></span></b></p></td></tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;"> <td width="149" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>a little</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>a bit</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>a little bit</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>slightly</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 176, 240); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p></td> <td width="28" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt medium; border-style: solid none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 21.25pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: yellow; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-highlight: yellow;'></span></b></p></td> <td width="198" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt medium; border-style: solid none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 148.85pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>much </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>a lot</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>a great deal</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>far</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>not nearly as...as...</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>nowhere near as...as...</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>nothing like as..as [informal]</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>quite a bit<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"></span></span></b></p></td> <td width="263" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 196.95pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>My new car is a lot fast<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">er</span> but far <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">less</span> economical <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">than</span> my old one.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I chose this hotel because it's slightly <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">less</span> expensive.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: yellow; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-highlight: yellow;'></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I go to the gym much <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">more</span> often <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">than</span> I used to.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I ca<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">n't </span>run nearly <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">as</span> quickly <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">as</span> I could when I was young.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b>&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: yellow; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-highlight: yellow;'></span></b></p></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><br><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>With superlative adjectives, we use 'by far' and 'easily' as intensifiers. For example:</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Our company sells by far <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">the most</span> cars in Europe.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>She's easily <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">the</span> tall<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">est </span>person in her family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></b></p> <p>&nbsp;</p></html>
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src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/831_fbac3fe979f8151bf28d66f755e10390.jpg"></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;'>Our company is <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">the most</span> successful in Europe<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">.</span></span></strong></p></td></tr><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2;"><td width="307" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: none; width: 230.3pt; background-color: transparent;"><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Calibri">&nbsp;</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Calibri">&nbsp;<img height="126" id="1334" style="width: 115px; height: 85px;" alt="Image" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/1334_c36b9d4ed7c3e073c19ae524fb68a0dd.jpg"></font></span></p><p 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204);">the worst </span>office in the department!</span></strong></p></td></tr><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3;"><td width="307" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: none; width: 230.3pt; background-color: transparent;"><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Calibri">&nbsp;</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Calibri">&nbsp;<span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'><img height="103" id="1106" style="width: 120px; height: 86px;" alt="Image" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/1106_23d36a59cc56f2bca9d6f597fc2ced77.png"></span></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;'>The 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<html><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>One-syllable adjectives </span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Most of these take 'er' and 'est' for superiority but there are a few, particularly some ending in 'l', that are better with 'more...than...' For example:</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>I'm <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">more apt </span>to forget things when I'm tired.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Some dreams seem <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">more</span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> real </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>than others.</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>And there are a few others which can use both forms. For example:</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>She's <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">frailer</span>/<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">more frail </span>than her sister.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>That's <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">clearer</span>/<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">more clear </span>now - thank you for explaining.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>It would be <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">fairer</span>/<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">more fair </span>to divide it equally.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>For inferiority, most take 'not as...as...' but a few use both forms. For example:</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>It is<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">n't as </span>cold <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">as</span> it was.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>It's <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">less </span>cold <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">than</span> it was. <span style="color: red;"></span></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 15.45pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Riding a bike is<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">n't as </span>safe at night.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Riding a bike is <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">less</span> safe at night.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>'All the more'</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>This expression means 'even more than previously or otherwise'. We can use it with adjectives or adverbs or with neither. We can also use 'all the less' in a similar way as well as 'all the' + comparative adjective or adverb. For example</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;'>: </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>I really can't wait for my holiday and it's all the more exciting for being outside Europe - it will be my first time.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>We were already doing well and we worked all the faster when we heard there'd be a bonus for finishing before</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;'> the deadline. <span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);"></span></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>We've never had much faith in him and his arguments are all the less convincing when you consider his lack of experience</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;'>. </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>I'm starting to recover now and I feel all the better for your visit - thanks for coming</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;'>. <span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);"></span></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;'>Note that </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;'>'even more/less' or 'even + er' are generally more common in conversation.</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Comparing two qualities</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>We don't use 'er' to compare two qualities of the same person or thing. For example:</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><table style="border-collapse: collapse; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" table=""><tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes;"><td width="319" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-image: none; width: 239.4pt; background-color: transparent;"><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Pierre is more sad than angry. </span></b><img height="22" id="39" style="width: 19px; height: 19px;" alt="Image" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/39_db7196aad25f86da510b9bb08610a187.jpg"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>[His sadness is greater than his anger.]</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>The film was more funny than tragic.<span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);"> </span></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>I think it's more red than orange.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>She's more of an artist than a poet.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p></td><td width="319" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-image: none; width: 239.4pt; background-color: transparent;"><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Pierre is sadder than angry. </span></b><img height="21" id="40" style="width: 22px; height: 20px;" alt="Image" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/40_457126aaf23a65c1331eea83d27fb7c4.jpg"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: gray; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Similes</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>We use 'as...as...' in similes - standard expressions which use a comparison of two things that are alike. It's an alternative to using 'very' or 'really'.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Her hair is <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">as</span> white <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">as</span> snow.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>I love cycling here - it's <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">as</span> flat <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">as </span>a pancake</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>It's impossible to make him change his mind - he's <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">as </span>stubborn<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);"> as </span>a mule.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>There are many of these in use in informal English and they are often used in a fun or joking manner.</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Note that </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>we cannot use 'so' in similes.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">&nbsp;<b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Superlative adjectives with 'the least' </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>With one-syllable adjectives, we usually prefer to use the opposite adjective of superiority:</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>This is the least dark colour. </span></b><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; mso-no-proof: yes; text-underline: none;"><img height="21" id="40" style="width: 22px; height: 20px;" alt="Image" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/40_457126aaf23a65c1331eea83d27fb7c4.jpg"></span><span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>This is <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">the</span> light<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">est </span>colour.&nbsp;&nbsp; <img height="22" id="39" style="width: 19px; height: 19px;" alt="Image" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/39_db7196aad25f86da510b9bb08610a187.jpg"></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>With other adjectives, both are often possible:</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 35.4pt; tab-stops: 212.65pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>This is <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">the least </span>expensive car. </span></b><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; mso-no-proof: yes; text-underline: none;"><img height="22" id="39" style="width: 19px; height: 19px;" alt="Image" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/39_db7196aad25f86da510b9bb08610a187.jpg"></span><b><span style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>This is <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">the</span> cheap<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">est </span>car. </span></span></b><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; mso-no-proof: yes; text-underline: none;"><img height="22" id="39" style="width: 19px; height: 19px;" alt="Image" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/39_db7196aad25f86da510b9bb08610a187.jpg"></span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><br></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>However, we need to be careful because these kinds of sentence don't always have the same meaning. For example:</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.4pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>'February was <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">the least </span>cold month of last winter' <u>isn't the same as</u> 'February was the hot<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">test</span> month of last winter.' [because none of the winter months were hot.]</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>'So'</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>For comparatives of inferiority using 'not...as...', we can substitute 'so' for the first 'as':</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>He is<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">n't as</span>/<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">so</span> tall <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">as</span> his brothers.<span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);"></span></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>'not as...as...' is more common. 'not so...as...' is more likely to be used with ellipses than in full sentences: <span style="color: red;"></span></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>It is<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">n't&nbsp;</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">so</span> cold today. [<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">as</span> yesterday]</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>People aren't <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">so</span> poor nowadays. [<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">as</span> they used to be]</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Note that </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>we cannot use 'so' in comparatives of equality:</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>It's <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">as</span> cold today <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">as</span> yesterday. <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>It's so cold today as yesterday. </span></b><span style='color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-no-proof: yes; text-underline: none;'><img height="21" id="40" style="width: 22px; height: 20px;" alt="Image" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/40_457126aaf23a65c1331eea83d27fb7c4.jpg"></span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>or in the following similar kinds of expression:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span><span style="color: red;"></span></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>I drove <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">as</span> fast <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">as</span> I could. </span></b><span style='color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-no-proof: yes; text-underline: none;'><img height="22" id="39" style="width: 19px; height: 19px;" alt="Image" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/39_db7196aad25f86da510b9bb08610a187.jpg"></span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>I drove so fast as I could. </span></b><span style='color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-no-proof: yes; text-underline: none;'><img height="21" id="40" style="width: 22px; height: 20px;" alt="Image" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/40_457126aaf23a65c1331eea83d27fb7c4.jpg"></span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 36pt; tab-stops: 212.65pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>I'll call him <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">as </span>soon <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">as</span> possible. </span></b><span style='color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-no-proof: yes; text-underline: none;'><img height="22" id="39" style="width: 19px; height: 19px;" alt="Image" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/39_db7196aad25f86da510b9bb08610a187.jpg"></span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>I'll call him so soon as possible. </span></b><span style='color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-no-proof: yes; text-underline: none;'><img height="21" id="40" style="width: 22px; height: 20px;" alt="Image" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/40_457126aaf23a65c1331eea83d27fb7c4.jpg"></span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>However, 'so' is possible in some expressions which <u>are not</u> comparatives. For example:</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>'as/so far as' = to the degree or extent that</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>'as/so long as' = on condition that or since</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>As/so far as I'm aware, there's no meeting this week.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>As/so long as I get paid extra, I'll work on Saturday.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>As/so long as you're dealing with this, I'll go to lunch now.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"></span>&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"></span>&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>'Most' as an intensifier</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>The word 'most' can be used in a way that is <u>not</u> a superlative. It has the same meaning as words like 'very', 'really' and 'extremely'. </span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Note that </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>this structure is rarely used and sounds old-fashioned so <u>do not use it</u>. The following examples are for information only&nbsp;:</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><table class="MsoTableLightListAccent1" style="border: currentColor; border-image: none; border-collapse: collapse; mso-border-alt: solid #4F81BD 1.0pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: -1; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes;"><td width="310" valign="top" style="background: rgb(79, 129, 189); border-width: 1pt medium medium 1pt; border-style: solid none none solid; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(79, 129, 189); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 232.2pt;"><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 5;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: background1;'>Intensifier</span></b></p></td><td width="310" valign="top" style="background: rgb(79, 129, 189); border-width: 1pt 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid solid none none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 232.2pt;"><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 1;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: background1;'>Superlative</span></b></p></td></tr><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 0;"><td width="310" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 232.2pt; background-color: transparent;"><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>I read a most interesting article in this magazine.* [I read a very interesting article - there is no suggestion of a comparison with other articles.]</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>This soup is most delicious.*</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></p></td><td width="310" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 232.2pt; background-color: transparent;"><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>This is <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">the most </span>interesting article in the magazine. </span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>This is <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">the most </span>delicious soup I've ever had. </span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>*<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);"> </span>It is much more natural in conversation to say</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;'>: </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>I read a really interesting article.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>This soup is absolutely delicious.<span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);"></span></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b>&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Other comparative and superlative structures</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Here are some examples of different ways to express comparatives and superlatives:</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>It was <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">as</span> successful a venture <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">as</span> he could have hoped.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Their request deserved <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">as </span>quick a response <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">as </span>we were able to give.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>It's is<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">n't as </span>much fun working here <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">as</span> it used to be.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>I have a much fast<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">er</span> journey to work now. </span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>A male-dominated company is <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">less</span> likely to offer flexible working hours.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>The <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">most</span> likely outcome is that sales will start slowly and take off later in the year.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>It is<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">n't as </span>high quality <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">as</span> the previous model.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>What's <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">most</span> important to me is job satisfaction.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>What I like <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">best</span> about him is his ability to explain things clearly.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>He lived <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">the</span> long<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">est</span> of all his family.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>I like <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">most</span> kinds of cheese but my favourite is Camembert.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>&nbsp;</span></b><br></p></html>


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