He drives as carefully as I do.. He doesn’t drive as/so carefully as I do.. He runs faster than I do.. He drives more carefully than I do.. Cheetah runs the fastest in the world.. bad/ba
Trang 11 Equal comparisons: (equal degree)
* Form:
(+) S1 + be/ V + as + adj / adv + as + S2
E.g: He is as old as my father.
He drives as carefully as I (do).
Mai is as beautiful as her mother.
Mai looks as beautifully as her mother
(-) S1 + be not / trợ động từ verb not + as/so + adj/adv + as + S2
E.g: He is not as/so old as my father.
He doesn’t drive as/so carefully as I (do).
2 Comparatives:
* Short adjectives and adverbs:
S1 + be/ V + adj/ adv (short) + er + than + noun/ pronoun
E.g: You are thinner than he (is).
He runs faster than I (do).
Today is hotter than yesterday.
I am three years older than you are.
* Long adjectives and adverbs:
S1 + V + more + adj/ adv (long) + than + noun/ pronoun
E.g: He is more intelligent than I (am).
He drives more carefully than I (do).
3 Superlatives:
S + be/V + the + adj/ adv (short) + est + in (danh từ số ít)
the most + long adjective/ adverb + of (danh từ số nhiều) the least + adjective/ adverb
E.g: Nam is the tallest student in my class.
Cheetah runs the fastest in the world.
Nga is the most intelligent of all the students.
Those shoes are the least expensive of all.
Trang 21 bad/badly/
tuổi tác)
oldest/ eldest
4 Comparions with nouns
Danh từ cũng có thể được dùng làm so sánh trong cấu trúc so sánh bằng, hơn hoặc kém
+ S 1 + V + as many/ much + N as noun/ pronoun
S 1 + not V as/ so few/ little +
E.g He earns as much money as I do
He buys as many books as I do
He buys more books than I do
I don’t have as/ so many friends as he does
+ S 1 + V + more/ fewer/ less + N + than noun/ pronoun
E.g He has collected more stamps than I have
I have collected fewer stamps than he has
5 So sánh gia bội (so sánh gấp nhiều lần)
Là loại so sánh gấp rười, gấp đôi gấp ba Cấu trúc này không dùng cho so sánh hơn, kém mà dùng cho so sánh bằng
Subject + verb + bội số
+ as +
much
+ noun +
as + many
noun pronoun
Bội số có thể bao gồm: half, twice, three times, four
times ….
Thisdictionary costs twice as much as the other one
Trang 3At the clambake last week, Fred ate three times as many oysters
as Barney
Jerome has half as many records now as I had last year
- Ta phải xác định danh từ số ít hay số nhiều để dùng much hay many