COMPARATIVE DEGREE

Dalam Bahasa Inggris, kalimat perbandingan disebut sebagai comparative degree. Comparative degree bisa digunakan untuk membandingkan apapun baik makhluk hidup atau benda mati

Comparative adjectives enable us to express the difference between two people or things. In order to say that someone or something has a superior quality, size, or characteristic, you need to use ‘more’. Instead, when you want to say that someone or something has an inferior quality, size, or characteristic, you must use ‘less’.

USING MORE 

The way we make a comparative with ‘more’ depends on the length of the word. There are three different cases:

1) More for long adjectives.

If an adjective has two or more syllables, we add the word ‘more’ in front to create the comparative form. For example:

This hotel is more expensive than the last hotel we stayed at.

Reading is more interesting than watching television.

The sea here is more beautiful than the sea in my country.

2) -er for short adjectives

If an adjective has one syllable, or two syllables with -y as the second syllable, we add -er to create the comparative. For example:

Your house is bigger than mine.

Taking the bus is cheaper than taking the car.

This box is heavier than that one.

NOTE : As you can see in the first example, if an adjective ends in a vowel and consonant (e.g. big) you need to double the final consonant. For example, bigger, fatter, thinner

3) Irregular comparatives

As is often the case in English, there are some adjectives that are irregular and don’t follow these rules. Here are the irregular comparatives:

good – better

bad – worse

far – further (U.K. English) farther (US English)

fun – fun

For example,

Your coo

king is better than my cooking.

Arriving late is worse than arriving early.

Their house is further from here than our house.

Going out is more fun than staying at home.

USING THAN

When you refer to the two people/things you are comparing, you need to use ‘than’. For example,

Living in the city is better than living in the country.

But if it’s clear what you’re referring to, it’s also possible to make a comparison without repeating one of the things, and in this case you don’t need to use ‘than’. For example,

Living in the city is more expensive.

USING LESS

We use ‘less’ to say that someone or something has an inferior quality, size or characteristic. It’s easy to use because you simply put ‘less’ in front of any adjective. For example:

Walking is less tiring than running.

Australia is less populated than China.

Hamburgers are less healthy than vegetables

 ATTENTION ALERT 

Beberapa kosa kata yang  perlu untuk diketahui 

1. Compare = Membandingkan 

2.  Using = Penggunaan

3. Enable = Memungkinkan

4. Depends on = Tergantung pada 

5. Inferior quality = Tingkatan kualitas yang lebih rendah 

6. Length = Kepanjangan

7. Syllable = Suku Kata 

8  Heavier (Heavy + er ) = Lebih berat 

9.  Irregular = Tidak Beraturan 

10. Tiring = Melelahkan