By now you should know what an adjective is: words like tall, big or intelligent. These words can have what grammarians name degrees of modification. The degrees of modification can be the positive the comparative and the superlative forms. In fact only comparative and superlatives show these degrees in practice.
Here you have some rules you will have to follow for the formation of comparative and superlative forms:
Examples of superlatives:
1- Tom isold. He is 70. But Paul is 83. He is older than Tom...and Joe is 120. He isthe oldest
2- The trumpet isnoisy...A single drum isnoisier...But a set of drums is the noisiestmusical instrument
3- A pocket camera is expensive... A reflex camera is more expensive than a pocket camera....But a digital camera is themost expensive ofthe three
4- Tom is agood student. He marks are always seven or eight. Sue isbetterthan Tom: she gets always eight or nine....But Lisa is the bestin the class...She always gets ten
"Notice that the word than frequently accompanies the comparative and the word the precedes the superlative"
"To end this lesson note also that adjectives that end in a vowel and one consonant double that final consonant"
- Examples:
big bigger the biggest grande
hot hotter the hottest cálido
wet wetter the wettest húmedo
- Now try to complete this exercise using comparatives and superlatives:
Mount Everest is ___________ than Cerro Aconcagua. (high)
I like music. To me, music is ___________ interesting than maths.
Cheetahs are ______________ than tigers or lions. (fast)
The Parana is a long river...The Amazon is longer. But the Nile is the _____________ in the world.
Mariah Carey is a bit _____________ than Madonna. (young)
Laurel and Hardy were _____________ than the Simson" (funny)
The Atacama desert is ______________ than the Amazonian region. (dry)
The Saharan desert is the _____________ The Saharan desert is the
Siddhartha is an allegorical novel written by Hermann Hesse in 1922 after the First World War.
The novel traces the life of Siddhartha, the son of Brahma, a Hindu girl, very busy looking for the most varied forms of his own lifetime. At his side is his faithful friend Govinda, special and spiritually. They must start their shared journey, not just geographical, but personal.
Govinda has always devoutly worshiped as Siddhartha wise. In the joint resolution decide to go to live with the Samana, coldly abandon their families. The Samana are men of religious soul, meditators, who live at random, with little or nothing to survive on his pilgrimage smooth with what they find along the way. At this stage of his life to fast, meditate and wait, the skills that will serve in the future.
It is after having lived with both determined to see the Buddha, Govinda, in this difficult decision is not shared by his friend, to join the sect they visit. Therefore, Siddhartha, from that moment was of vital alone. And the journey has come to a city that has met the beautiful Kamala, to be released to live as ever lived.
Hesse's extraordinary mastery of turns in the chapters related to Kamala, who was never called with a negative connotation name, creating the light of the office and "fair" for women delivered live.
Siddhartha, resolved spontaneously and sometimes deliberately sets out to learn the secrets of the love of her contact with her, share, while the needs of work, gain money, wasteful spending and ostentatious entertainments. And so we are introduced to a man who, being first original model, which now appears to be subject to all normal human frailties. Siddhartha is the same negative and despicable that he considered such behavior from a lineage of soul, and as his higher nature.
Hermann Hesse. Hermann Karl Hesse nació en Calw, localidad ubicada en Baden-Wurtemberg, donde transcurrieron los tres primeros años de su vida y tres años de colegio. Descendiente de misioneros cristianos, la familia tuvo desde 1873 una editorial de textos misioneros dirigida por el abuelo materno de Hesse, Hermann Gundert. Fue hijo de Marie Gundert nacida en Basilea, en 1842 y de Johannes Hesse, nacido en 1847, hijo de un médico originario de Estonia. Tuvo cinco hermanos de los que dos murieron prematuramente.
Personal comment: Personally this novel is one of my favorites because it is very interesting and philosophical, which helps you think things you often do not appreciate, this novel tells the search performed Siddhartha to make one wise, constantly in the novel.
El niño que enloqueció de amor
The novel is about a boy (whose name does not appear in the story) who falls for Angelica, a friend of his mother. Everything that happens, I choose to write in his diary by a man he wants as his father, Don Carlos Romeral, says that everything has been kept in a journal. The child suffers from several mental disorders: his grandmother does not want it and hates, his brothers also, lives trying to find who his father and live in love with Angelica. The child realizes he is in love with Angelica when she comes home for the first time he sees his mother and says "Look Angelica fell in love with you," there he realizes what was happening. One day, Angelica asks his mother to give the child to go shopping, then the child knows George. Later, the child begins to suffer from Angelica. One day he goes to Angelica's house and sees her with George. He insults and Angelica Jorge angry with him. Angelica was several days and does not appear in the house. The child becomes ill and begins to see a beast down from the hills and saw that everything turned red. Her mother begins to worry about it and then one day decides to take him to LA because there was a party, he comes and greets Angelica. Then he sees her kissing Angelica Jorge and pulled to mourn under the table. Everyone thinks that this drunk from a cup on the floor. After that, the author goes to the house where everyone is crying about the severity of the child, then he sees that the child begins to convulse and throw the paper onto the floor. The narrator picks it up and while the child goes mad and dies.
Eduardo Barrios. Son of Eduardo Barrios Achurra, Chilean army officer and Isabel Hudtwalcker journy, a Peruvian national. Childhood and adolescence were spent in Eduardo Barrios city that was his residence since the death of his father in 1889. His student life was not without its problems and it made him wander more shops: San Pedro College, Institute for German-English, French School and Parents Recoletano.
In 1900 he returned to Chile. He entered the Military School in the footsteps of his father, not being able to adapt, was its low before graduation as an officer. Then he turned to go in search of new experiences and play a variety of activities: it was dealer, circus performer, prospector, among others. On returning to Santiago, in 1909, began working as an officer of the University of Chile and stenographer in the House of Representatives.
He was editor of the journals Pen and Pencil, Pacific Magazine and Zig-Zag in 1915. At the time, also joined the literary group of the ten.
In 1925, he joined the National Library of Chile coming soon to be appointed Conservative Intellectual Property. After taking office as Minister of Education. In the fall of President Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, resigned his office to begin another stage, the farmer-landowner, but did not neglect literary activity and continued writing in the newspaper El Mercurio and La Nacion, as he had done before . In 1953 he joined the Chilean Academy of Language and was appointed Director of the National Library, a position he held until his retirement in 1960.
In his last decade Eduardo Barrios retired from his life as a writer, died in Santiago on September 13, 1963.
Personal Comment: Is a very romantic novel, sad but very good, despite being a relatively short book has a very interesting plot.
short video of one of the chapters of the text " el niño que enloqueció de amor"
Titanic is a 1997 film written, produced and directed by James Cameron about the sinking of the liner RMS Titanic. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater, respectively, members of different social classes who fall in love during the fateful maiden voyage of the ship in 1912. The film co-starring Billy Zane who plays Nathan Caledon Hockley, Rose's fiance, Bill Paxton plays Brock Lovett that, expedition leader of a modern treasure hunters and Gloria Stuart, who plays the elderly Rose, in the 1996.
The main characters and the love story are fictional, but many of the secondary characters (such as crew members and some of the passengers in first and second class) are based on real historical figures, as well as shots of the real Titanic sunk bottom of the Atlantic in that open the film.
The film was a huge critical and commercial success, winning 11 Oscars, including Best Picture, and became the highest grossing film of all time until 2010 was surpassed by the film Avatar which was also directed by James Cameron. Despite having been overcome, to date collection remains a figure that with the exception of any film Avatar has achieved.
Main characters
- Jack Dawson: An attractive young painter of 20 years, despite their economic situation has traveled to many parts of the world. Wins his third-class passage on the Titanic in a poker game. Once there is captivated by the beauty of Rose and, later in the film, portrayed naked.
Meet when Jack saves him from a suicide attempt, a feat that lets you mix in a first class dinner and show that despite being poor is very intelligent, clever and witty. He died of hypothermia in the sinking, but not take a promise to Rose that will fight for survival and kiss her one last time.
- Rose DeWitt Bukater: A girl of 17 years of age traveling in First Class. Caledon Hockley is committed to Nathan, but I love it. Just wanted to marry his mother's obligation, because otherwise it would be in the street. When she meets Jack falls in love with him and let Cal is a survivor of the Titanic. After the fall, she rebuilt her life and changes her name to Rose Dawson. She was an actress, married and had two children, but never forgot his true love, Jack Dawson.
I chose this movie because it's one of my favorite movies for the plot presented in the course of history, although it is a movie of love also generates a lot of sadness about the outcome.
50 Primeras citas
Henry Roth, sailor who lives in Hawaii, meets Lucy Whitmore, an art teacher at a cafe one morning. Coincidentally, create relationships, but soon discovers that Lucy suffers from anterograde amnesia following an accident a year earlier. The result is that she has no recollection of anything that has passed between the day of the accident and the present, because Lucy is unable to convert short-term memory to long term. Every morning he wakes up, having lost all memory of the previous day. Cree, naively, that every day is October 13, 2002. His brother and father act like that day, the birthday of the father, to prevent suffering and Lucy discover the accident.
Because of the special situation of Lucy, Henry tries to get new and imaginative ways to get Lucy's attention every day, even though his father and brother warn you not to keep going to the cafeteria and not take advantage of the situation. However, Henry promised to meet, lets go to the cafeteria, but is in the path between the local and the home of Lucy. The father and brother just discovered why Lucy singing Would not It Be Nice while painting the garage if it is found with Henry. So, thanks to the determination that puts Henry and Lucy is happy when he sees the father and brother to finish allowing you to see Lucy. The next day, Henry appears at home with a video explaining the accident and everything that has happened since.
One morning Lucy wakes up next to Henry, in his bed, after spending the night together. By not remember, does not recognize him and attacks him. Henry leaves the room and Lucy overhears a conversation of Henry and the doctor. They talk about Henry not enjoy his dream (to explore the Arctic) because Lucy has decided to keep thinking, hoping, to remember the day. Lucy breaks up with him because he has the feeling that Henry away from their dreams, and to leave no trace, burning all his diary entries.
Henry is unable to go on without Lucy, but finally decides to leave the Arctic. The father and Lucy's brother visit him, and told that she is following her life, aware every day of his disease, and walks always happy singing his song Would not It Be Nice. Before leaving it alone, the father gives him a CD of the Beach Boys. Henry believes that this happy and sing the song is a sign that reminds Lucy and returns to the center for people with memory problems, where Lucy had decided to live not to cause problems for others, teaching art other. When Herny enters and asks Lucy if she remembers, she says no, but asks to accompany you to your room. To his surprise, Henry sees a room full of paintings of himself in different styles. She says she does not know why he has painted, but he dreams every night. Henry explains his relationship and a kiss ends the scene.
Towards the end of the film, Lucy wakes up in a strange place to watch a video but realizes that she married Henry. Upstairs notices that are in a boat through the Arctic with his father, Henry, Marlin and his young daughter, Lucy's father.
50 First Dates is a romantic comedy which I recommend seeing this movie about love between a teacher and a veterinarian, which the woman suffers from amnesia disease that is caused by an accident. This is almost an impossible love and every day she forgets who is "The" and the man who conquered tene daily to win her love every day.
My name is Merlo Darlyn, I have 17 years birthday on September 8. I study at the College Polivalente Domingo Matte Mesias, and I am in third grade, which for me personallyhas been a difficult year for all the responsibilities that are obtained as the years pass.
live in the city of Santiago de Chile, specifically in the municipality of Puente Alto, live with my parents and my two brothers are called Jaime Ariel and Geraldine, I'm the middle sister and my brother is 23 and my sister 14.
I have a good relationship with my family, sometimes we all gathered in my grandmother's house to share and had a great time with my uncles and cousins.
I love sports and exercise, I like hanging out with my friends, I like parties, laughing, talking,listening to music that's what I do very often, being with my family and go to the mall.
What I dislike is having to do things out of obligation, carried out without motivation. I do not like going to movies, and country.
I have 3 best friends who are called Samuel is on the person in whom I trust, Paz and Natalia are very good friends and I love very much, they always are with me in good times and bad, and we always lot of fun.
I have no specific style but I love pop music, electronics among others, as previously seen Avril Lavigne is my favorite singer but it is not only because I also like Rihanna, Beyonce, Bruno Mars, Bob Sinclair.
Betoncé - Si yo fuera un chico
This song is one that I like about Beyoncé
Thinking about my future, leaving the school, I would like to study Advertising or Journalism or apply school police of Investigaciones or school of Carabineros. My dad and brother are carabineron profession so this caught my attention, but my dream would be to work on TV.
He began hismusicalcareerin December2001 tomid 2009 andafter arelease of threestudio albumsLet Go, Under MySkinand TheBestDamnThing.
The singeris also aGuinnessrecord holderas theyoungestfemale singer totakea debut albumtothe chartsin the UK,with 18years.
She sayspop-punk.Tambiénplay musiccan be classified asan artist withone or moregenreslistedLavigne's musicas alternative rock, poprock, poppunk, teenpop,andpost-grunge.The influenceof these generavary witheach albumhe hasreleased, keepinga touchtypemusicmainlypoppunk.
Then I will present the song from one of the many songs from Avril Lavigne :
Wish you were here
I can be tough
I can be strong
But with you
It’s not like that at all
There’s a girl
That gives a shit
Behind this wall
You just walk through it
And I remember
All those crazy things you said
You let them running through my head
You’re always there
You’re everywhere
But right I wish you were here
All those crazy things we did
Didn’t think about
Just went with it
You’re always there
You’re everywhere
But right now I wish you were here
(choir)
Damn, damn, damn
What I’d do to have you here, here, here
I wish you were here
Damn, damn, damn
What I’d do to have you near, near, near
I wish you were here
I love the way you are
It’s who I am
Don’t have to try hard
We always say, say like it is
And the truth is that I really miss
All those crazy things you said
You let them running through my head
You’re always there
You’re everywhere
But right I wish you were here
All those crazy things we did
Didn’t think about
Just went with it
You’re always there
You’re everywhere
But right now I wish you were here
(choir)
Damn, damn, damn
What I’d do to have you here, here, here
I wish you were here
Damn, damn, damn
What I’d do to have you near, near, near
I wish you were here
No, I don’t wanna let go
I just wanna to let you to know
That I never wanna let go.
(choir)
Damn, damn, damn
What I’d do to have you here, here, here
I wish you were here
Damn, damn, damn
What I’d do to have you near, near, near
I wish you were here...
