Онлайн-урок №2 "Types of human personality. Comparative and superlative degree of adjectives and adverbs"

Односложные прилагательные образуют степени сравнения путем добавления к основе
окончаний -er, -est:
tall – taller – the tallest
small – smaller – the smallest

Перед многосложными прилагательными ставится more, most:
beautiful – more beautiful – the most beautiful
important – more important – the most important

Отклонения от правила

1. Двусложные прилагательные, заканчивающиеся на –y, –ow, –er, –le:
happy – happier – the happiest
narrow – narrower – the narrowest
clever – cleverer – the cleverest
simple – simpler – the simplest

2. Двусложные прилагательные с ударением на последний слог:
complete – completer – the completest
concise – conciser – the concisest

Некоторые прилагательные имеющие неправильные формы образования

good – better – the best
bad – worse – the worst
many, much – more – the most
little – less – the least

far – farther – the farthest (с расстоянием)
– further – the furthest (со временем и расстоянием)

late – later – the latest – The latest book by Dontzova.
– latter – the last – The last book by Shakespeare.

near – nearer – the nearest (ближайший)
– the next (следующий, соседний)

old – older – the oldest (только возраст)
– elder – the eldest (никогда не ставится перед союзом than)

My elder brother is 5 years older than me.
Who is the oldest in your group? – по возрасту
Who is the eldest in your group? – по рангу (староста, начальник)

Our family is neither large nor small. I have a mother, a father and a sister. We all live together. We are an average family.
  My father Jack is 45 years old. He is a tall and well-built man with short black hair and grey eyes. He works as a manager at a big plant. He likes his work and spends most of his time there. My father is a quiet man, while my mother is energetic and talkative.
  My mother’s name is Emily. She is a teacher of music and plays the piano very well. My mother always has a lot of work to do about the house and at school. She is out-going, cheerful and encouraging.
  My sister’s name is Jessica. She takes after our mother. She has blue eyes and fair hair. She is a very good-looking girl. Jess is three years younger than me. She does well at school and gets only good and excellent marks. Literature is her favourite subject and she wants to become a teacher, as well as I do.
  Our family is very united. We like spending time together. Our parents don’t always agree with what we say, but they listen to our opinion.
All of us like to spend our weekends in the country. We often go to the village where our grandparents live. They are aged pensioners now, but prefer to live in the country. My great-grandmother is still alive. She lives in my grandmother’s family and is always glad to see us. Her health is poor and she asks us to come and see her more often. I also have many other relatives: uncles, aunts, cousins. We are happy when we are together.