Compare and Contrast

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Compare and Contrast It’s like this and like that, yeah!

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Compare and Contrast. It’s like this and like that, yeah!. You have learned m ás and menos in certain expressions . Me gusta el tenis pero me gusta más el fútbol. ¿Te gustan las manzanas? Sí, más o menos. Los comparativos. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Compare and Contrast

It’s like this and like that, yeah!

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You have learned más and menos in certain expressions.Me gusta el tenis pero

me gusta más el fútbol.¿Te gustan las manzanas? Sí, más o

menos.

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We also use más / menos + adjective + que to make comparisonsLas manzanas son

más deliciosas que el asparago. Yo soy menos bonita

que mi hermana.

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The adjectives agree with the nouns to which they refer.The adjectives bueno,

malo, viejo and joven have irregular forms and we do not use que with them

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Irreg

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Bueno, good, mejor, betterMalo, bad, peor, worse

Viejo, old, mayor, older Joven, young, menor,

younger* To make these plural just ad “es” *

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To say someone is “the most” of a group, we use the definite article + noun + más + adjectiveTo say something is

“the best” or “the worst,” we use el/la mejor and el/la peor, these come before the noun

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Exam

ples

Los elefantes son los animales más grandes en el zoológico. Yo soy la mejor profesora. Robin Williams es el

mejor actor del año.Ella es la menos

deportista de la clase.

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a Remember to say something is the “most” or “least we use a simple formula…

El/la/los/las + noun + más/menos + adjective

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To compare things that are the same, we use

Tan + adj.+ como In English we use as…

asElena es tan alta como

su madreElena is as tall as her mum.

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More

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You know that we use Tan + adj.+ como to make equal comparisons of people or things. To make the same kind of comparison with nouns, we use tanto(a) + noun + comoSince tanto is an

adjective, it agrees in number and gender wtih the noun.

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Exam

ples

Rosa es tan elegante como

su prima. Rosa is as elegant as her cousin. Tiene tanto dinero como su

prima. She has as much money as

her cousin. Compra tantas blusas como faldas. She buys as many bouses

as skirts.