| short words:
-er, -est
| big – bigg er – the bigg est
thin – thinn er – the thinn est
short – short er – the short est
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| words ending in – y:
-ier, -iest
| easy – eas ier – the eas iest
happy – happ ier – the happi est
heavy – heav ier – the heav iest
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| long words:
more, the most
| important – more important – the most important
general – more general – the most general
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| both ways for some adjectives (stupid, gentle, friendly, cruel, common, pleasant, quiet, shallow)
|  simpler – the simplest
 simple
more simple- the most simple
 narrower – the narrowest
 narrow
more narrow – the most narrow
 cleverer – the cleverest
 clever
more clever – the most clever
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| real
right
wrong
| real - more real- the most real
right - more right - the most right
wrong- more wrong - the most wrong
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| a bit/ a littlе + comparative (немного)
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a bit
| bigger
older
more difficult
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than
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| much/ a lot/ far + comparative (намного, гораздо)
| It’s much cheaper. – Это намного дешевле.
The film is far better than the book. – Фильм гораздо лучше, чем книга.
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| By far + superlative (гораздо)
| He is by far the best student in the class. – Он
гораздо лучше, чем все остальные студенты.
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