Personal Pronouns / Superiority Comparatives / The Imperative

Welcome to your Personal Pronouns / Superiority Comparatives / The Imperative lesson! In this topic we talk about:
• Personal pronouns
• Forming superiority comparatives
• Using superiority comparatives
• Second person imperative
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Personal pronouns

Personal pronouns replace nouns. There are two types of personal pronouns:

• Subjects

“Mark looks after his sister.”

“He looks after his sister.”

• Objects

“Mark looks after his sister.”

“Mark looks after her.”

Forming superiority comparatives

• For short adjectives (one syllable adjectives, and two sylable adjectives that end in “+er”) we add “+er” to the adjective:

Tall → Taller
Small → Smaller

• For two syllable adjecives that finish in “+y”, we transform the “y” into “i” before adding “+er” :
  

Heavy → Heavier
Funny → Funnier

• You have to double the conssanant of certain adjectives before adding “+er” to form comparatives :

Fat → Fatter
Hot → Hotter

• For long adjectives, (two or more syllables) we add “more” before the adjective:

Expensive → More expensive
Beautiful → More beautiful

• Some adjectives are irregular:

Good → Better
Bad → Worse

Using superiority comparatives

When we want to describe how something is superior to another thing, we use superiority comparatives. The object of the sentence is preceeded by “than” :

“A car is cheaper than a helicopter.”

“She is taller than him.”

Second person imperative

When we want to give orders to someone, or stop someone from doing something, we use the imperative.

Imperative = “Infinitive verb” or “Don’t + Infinitive verb” :

“Look out!”

“Don’t do that!”