Adjectives: They Can Compare!

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In this lesson, you will learn how adjectives are used to compare things. This is important because it will help you describe things in better detail.

• Was it easy or hard for you to spot the differences between the pictures above?

Just like the changes in the pictures showed what was different, words like adjectives show what is the same or different about whatever the topic is.

• First of all, what are adjectives?

Watch the video below for a quick review.

Using adjectives to describe different nouns helps us see what is the same or different about those nouns.

For example, let's talk about two restaurants.

• The restaurant in the city is very expensive.
• The restaurant near the park is more crowded.

Adding the words very and more helps us understand that we are talking about -- and comparing -- two different restaurants.

Comparative adjectives are a special type of adjective used to compare or say what's similar or different about two or more things. They show that one noun is more of something than the others.

Most comparative adjectives end in -er, like these examples.

• taller
• smarter
• crazier

Sometimes, though, we add a word such as more or less before the adjective INSTEAD of adding an -er at the end.

As you can see, none of these comparative adjectives would work by themselves. They always need to describe two or more nouns.

They help us to see what's the same or different about them.

Keep going in the Got It? section!