比较级的相关用法

比较级的相关用法；

形容词、副词的比较级和最高级的构成规则

1．一般单音节词和少数以-er，-ow结尾的双音节词，比较级在后面加-er，最高级在后面加-est；

（1）单音节词

small →smaller →smallest short →shorter →shortest

tall →taller→tallest great →greater →greatest （2）双音节词

clever →cleverer →cleverest narrow →narrower →narrowest

2．以不发音e结尾的单音节词，比较在原级后加-r，最高级在原级后加-st；

large →larger →largest nice →nicer →nicest

able →abler →ablest

3．在重读闭音节（即：辅音＋元音＋辅音）中，先双写末尾的辅音字母，比较级加-er，最高级加-est；

big →bigger →biggest hot →hotter →hottest

fat →fatter →fattest

4．以“辅音字母＋y”结尾的双音节词，把y改为i，比较级加-er，最高级加-est；

easy →easier →easiest heavy →heavier →heaviest

busy →busier →busiest happy →happier →happiest 5．其他双音节词和多音节词，比较级在前面加more，最高级在前面加most；

beautiful →more beautiful →most beautiful

different →more different →most different

easily →more easily →most easily

注意：（1）形容词最高级前通常必须用定冠词the，副词最高级前可不用。

The Sahara is the biggest desert in the world.

（2）形容词most前面没有the，不表示最高级的含义，只表示"非常"。

It is a most important problem. =It is a very important problem.

6．有少数形容词、副词的比较级和最高级是不规则的，必须熟记。

good/well →better →best bad/ill →worse →worst

old →older/ elder →oldest/eldest many/much →more →most

little →less →least far →further/farther→furthest/farthest

修饰比较级和最高级的词

1. far 用于比较级之前，加强语气；

It is far colder today than yesterday .

2. by far 最高级之前，加强语气；

用来强调比较级，放在比较级之后；放在前面时，则常需在比较级之前加上定冠词the . The Pacific is by far the largest ocean in the world .

The old woman became better by far .

Riding a bicycle is by far the easier than driving a car .

3.very 与much 区别联系；

1）. 修饰形容词或副词的原级用very ，不用much .

In his early childhood , Einstein did not seem to be very bright .

在童年时代，爱因斯坦似乎不很聪明。

2）.修饰动词时，应用much ，不用very ，但可用very much 。

I don’t like football much (very much ). 我不很喜欢踢足球。

3）.much放在形容词或副词的比较级之前，起强调作用；

或修饰形容词或副词的最高级，放在定冠词the 之前;

very 修饰形容词的最高级，放在定冠词the 之后;

It is much hotter today than (it was ) yesterday . 今天比昨天热得多。

Mr. Smith is much the best teacher in the school .

Mr. Smith is the very best teacher in the school . 史密斯先生是该学校最好的老师。

4.比较级前面不能再加more了,more只能和原级形容词构成比较级.

more important.

5. a lot, lots , a great deal 修饰比较级，表示程度，词组中不带of .

6. rather 一词与比较级及too连用，fairly / quite 则不能。

7. a little , a bit, a few , slightly 稍微，一些，一点,比较级前起强调作用。

This kind of bicycle is slightly more expensive than that kind .

8. even , much , still , yet 甚至，更，还要；比较级前起强调作用，

That job is so easy , and this job is yet easier .

9. some , any 也可以修饰比较级；some常用于肯定的陈述句以及表示建议或邀请的疑问句；any 常用于否定句，疑问句，条件句中。

-----Is he any better？

------Yes . He is some better today .

10.用分数，百分数，倍数或时间，长度的名词词组来修饰比较级，可确切表示比较程度。He is one inch taller than I .

Our classroom is two feet wider than theirs .

11. much more +不可数名词than ---;

many more + 可数名词than ---- 比较级作定语修饰名词

He has made more progress this year than he did last year .

more 句中是much 的比较级，作不可数名词progress 的定语，若要说“比去年进步大得多”就要用much 来强调。

I have many more books than you .

It takes many more hours to go by train from Beijing to Nanjing than to Tianjin.

比较级作定语修饰可数名词，more 是many的比较级，若强调，就用many 来加强语气。典型例题

1）---- Are you feeling ____? ---- Yes，I'm fine now.

A. any well

B. any better

C. quite good

D. quite better

答案：B. any 可修饰比较级，quite修饰原级，well的比较级为better.

2）The experiment was____ easier than we had expected.

A. more

B. much more

C. much

D. more much

答案C. much可修饰比较级，因此B,C都说得通，但easier本身已是比较级，不需more，因此C为正确答案。

3）If there were no examinations, we should have ___ at school.

A. the happiest time

B. a more happier time

C. much happiest time

D. a much happier time [D]

4.------- Look , I have got a rare stamp here . It cost me two hundred dollars .

------Oh , I have a rarer one ; my uncle gave it to me as a birthday gift .