UNIT 2 COMPARISONS OF ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS

1. Short, Long and Special adjectives/ adverbs: (Tính từ/ Trạng từ dài, ngắn và đặc biệt)a/ Short adjectives: are adjectives with- one syllable (1 âm tiết): long , short, big, hot, fat ..- two syllables (2 âm tiết) with the endings:- y. E.g: happy, lazy, busy, ...Short adverbs: are adverbs with one syllable: hard, late, soon, ... and the adverb “early”b/ Long adjectives: Two syllables up (Từ 2 âm tiết trở lên), and those ended with (tận cùng là) –ed.E.g: careful, beautiful, hard-working, careless, complicated, bored… * Note: Các tính từ có tận cùng là đuôi -er, -le, -ow, and -et, được xem như vừa ngắn vừa dài.E.g: clever, simple, narrow, quiet, …Long adverbs: are adverbs with two syllables up EXCEPT FOR early and badlyc/ Special adjectives/ adverbs: are those whose comparative pattern are different from that of Short and Longadjectives/ adverbs. This group consists of: good, bad, well, ill, old, far (adj), and well, badly, far, little,much (adv)