{"id":212,"date":"2026-01-16T13:10:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T12:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogsaverroes.juntadeandalucia.es\/lenguaeinglescepermariadeluna\/?p=212"},"modified":"2026-01-18T11:01:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T10:01:44","slug":"comparatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogsaverroes.juntadeandalucia.es\/lenguaeinglescepermariadeluna\/2026\/01\/16\/comparatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hoy vamos a hablar de los comparativos en ingl\u00e9s. Para poder formar el comparativo, primero tenemos que fijarnos en el tipo de adjetivo que tenemos y ver si es <strong>corto<\/strong> o <strong>largo<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adjetivos cortos: son los que tienen <strong>una<\/strong> sola <strong>s\u00edlaba<\/strong> o <strong>dos<\/strong> s\u00edlabas cuando <strong>acaban en -y<\/strong>: old, nice, big, healthy.<\/li>\n<li>Adjetivos largos: son los que tienen\u00a0<strong>una s\u00edlaba y acaban en -d,<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>dos s\u00edlabas<\/strong> y no acaban en -y o los que tienen <strong>m\u00e1s s\u00edlabas<\/strong>: famous, tired&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Una vez que tenemos clara esta distinci\u00f3n, veamos c\u00f3mo se construye el comparativo:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Adjetivos cortos<\/strong><\/em>: a\u00f1adimos al adjetivo la terminaci\u00f3n <strong>-er<\/strong>: old &#8211; old<strong>er<\/strong>, nice &#8211; nic<strong>er<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>dentro de estos, hay algunos que son <em><strong>irregulares<\/strong><\/em>:\n<ul>\n<li>good &#8211; <strong>better<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>bad &#8211; <strong>worse<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>far &#8211; <strong>farther\/further<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Adjetivos largos<\/strong><\/em>: colocamos antes del adjetivo la palabra <strong>more<\/strong>: <strong>more<\/strong> tired, <strong>more<\/strong> famous&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>En todos los casos, tanto se sin cortos, largos o irregulares, debemos a\u00f1adir la palabra <strong>than<\/strong> para poder hacer la frase comparativa. Veamos algunos ejemplos:<\/p>\n<p>A whale is <strong>louder than<\/strong> a lion.<\/p>\n<p>Canada is <strong>bigger than<\/strong> the USA.<\/p>\n<p>K2 is <strong>more difficult<\/strong> to climb <strong>than<\/strong> Mount Everest.<\/p>\n<p>My new job is <strong>better than<\/strong> my old one.<\/p>\n<p>Veamos ahora en una tabla las peculiaridades a la hora de escribirlos:<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%\"><strong>adjective<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%\"><strong>comparative<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%\"><strong>spelling<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%\">old<\/p>\n<p>nice<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%\">old<strong>er<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>nic<strong>er<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%\">Este es el caso normal de adjetivos de una sola s\u00edlaba, simplemente se le a\u00f1ade -er<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%\">big<\/p>\n<p>hot<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%\">big<strong>ger<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>hot<strong>ter<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%\">si el adjetivo es corto y termina en consonante + vocal + consonante debemos duplicar la consonante y despu\u00e9s a\u00f1adir -er<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%\">dry<\/p>\n<p>healthy<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%\">dr<strong>ier<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>health<strong>ier<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%\">si el adjetivo acaba en -y, se cambia esta letra por -ier<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%\">tired<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%\"><strong>more<\/strong> tired<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%\">adjetivos de una s\u00edlaba que acaban en -d, more + adjetivo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%\">famous<\/p>\n<p>expensive<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%\"><strong>more<\/strong> famous<\/p>\n<p><strong>more<\/strong> expensive<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%\">adjetivos de dos o m\u00e1s s\u00edlabas: more + adjetivo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Veamos unos ejercicios para practicar:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/blogsaverroes.juntadeandalucia.es\/lenguaeinglescepermariadeluna\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=h5p_embed&amp;id=121\" width=\"100%\" height=\"477\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/blogsaverroes.juntadeandalucia.es\/lenguaeinglescepermariadeluna\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=h5p_embed&amp;id=122\" width=\"100%\" height=\"640\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/blogsaverroes.juntadeandalucia.es\/lenguaeinglescepermariadeluna\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=h5p_embed&amp;id=123\" width=\"100%\" height=\"816\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/blogsaverroes.juntadeandalucia.es\/lenguaeinglescepermariadeluna\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=h5p_embed&amp;id=124\" width=\"100%\" height=\"508\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/blogsaverroes.juntadeandalucia.es\/lenguaeinglescepermariadeluna\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=h5p_embed&amp;id=125\" width=\"100%\" height=\"313\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hoy vamos a hablar de los comparativos en ingl\u00e9s. Para poder formar el comparativo, primero tenemos que fijarnos en el tipo de adjetivo que tenemos y ver si es corto o largo: Adjetivos cortos:&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5774,"featured_media":213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17,15],"tags":[55,34,53,30,27,19,39,35,50,28],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogsaverroes.juntadeandalucia.es\/lenguaeinglescepermariadeluna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogsaverroes.juntadeandalucia.es\/lenguaeinglescepermariadeluna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogsaverroes.juntadeandalucia.es\/lenguaeinglescepermariadeluna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogsaverroes.juntadeandalucia.es\/lenguaeinglescepermariadeluna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5774"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogsaverroes.juntadeandalucia.es\/lenguaeinglescepermariadeluna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogsaverroes.juntadeandalucia.es\/lenguaeinglescepermariadeluna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"https:\/\/blogsaverroes.juntadeandalucia.es\/lenguaeinglescepermariadeluna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogsaverroes.juntadeandalucia.es\/lenguaeinglescepermariadeluna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogsaverroes.juntadeandalucia.es\/lenguaeinglescepermariadeluna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogsaverroes.juntadeandalucia.es\/lenguaeinglescepermariadeluna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogsaverroes.juntadeandalucia.es\/lenguaeinglescepermariadeluna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}