Study and securing threads degree of comparison in English is neither the most complex or the most simple task.Just existing exceptions are sometimes the cause of errors that must be corrected and not repeated in the future.To do this, you should understand, first, that the English (and Russian) qualitative adverbs and adjectives can have degrees of comparison.And if the Russian language is the case, as a rule, complex and simple form of education and degrees of comparison of adjectives and adverbs, the degree of comparison in the English language have a rigid distinction between the degrees of comparison for the formation of one- and two-syllable for adjectives and adverbs.
So by comparing the type of education degree in English are divided into:
- Simple / monosyllabic: harsh - harsher - the harshest.
- polysyllabic: splendid - more splendid - the most splendid.
- Wrong: far - farther / further - farthest / furthest.
The examples above do not distinguish between adverbs and adjectives, as in reality in that part of the grammar, which refers to the degree of comparison, floating, for both parts of speech in English, they are identical.
As a very simple rule that can be applied in determining the type of education degrees of comparison of any English adjective or adverb, Russian equivalents can be used the same words.For example, in Russian we say "good" - "better" - "the best."If we discard rate of superlatives, we see that the dialect of the Russian language has in its three forms of three different words: good, better, best (you can, of course, use and integral form - the best - but in this example is better to use the form ofone word).It just pushes us to think that it's an adverb in English will also be wrong (which is true).Any student can independently try to find inconsistencies in the degree of comparison of any pair of Russian and English adverbs or adjectives (equivalents).
second fairly simple rule that is easy to understand and use, where appropriate, with regard to education polysyllabic names of adjectives and adverbs.This rule states that when a word is made up of two or more syllables, its comparative form is denoted by the word «more», and excellent - the expression «the most».Of course, it is impossible to take into account all the nuances of using the degrees of comparison, and learn how to quickly determine which typically can be used in a particular situation, but for most of these rules is enough.
third simple but very important rule to remember is to ensure that the third level of comparison of adverbs and adjectives, regardless of the type of education degree, is always in possession of the definite article.Greatly facilitates the participation of students that is completely absent in the English category for all kinds of parts of speech, and the system of inflections are so primitive in comparison with Russian that hardly entangled in anything.The exception, perhaps, is the so-called "silent e» at the end of some words, which affects the vowel in the preceding syllable and makes it open in this case.
