Lesson 8 The best and the worst 最好的和最差的 形容词 副词 比较级 最高级

Joe Sanders has the most beautiful garden in our town.

Nearly everybody enters for 'The Nicest Garden Competition' each year,

enter for ^{报名参加（各种竞赛，考试等活动）}

but Joe wins every time.

Bill Frith's garden is larger than Joe's. ^{被比者 + be + adj./adv.比较级 + than + 比较的对象}

比较的东西都是同类的事物 joe’s 的“’s”不能省略，名词加-’s 表示所属关系，构成名词的所有格。这类名词往往指有生命的东西，特别是人。所有格的语法作用相当于形容词，限定后面的名词。这个被限定的名词在上下文中第二次被提到时可以省略，只要不引起误解。

Bill works harder than Joe and grows more flowers and vegetables, but Joe's garden is more interesting.

He has made neat paths and has built a wooden bridge over a pool.

Every year I enter for the garden competition too, and I always win a little prize for the worst garden in the town!

• axe: I used my axe to chop some wood for the fire.
• bucket: We filled the bucket with water.
• bush: There is a beautiful bush growing in my garden.
• fertilizer: We mix fertilizer into the soil to help the plants grow.
• flowerbed: There are many flowers growing in the flowerbed.
• flowerpot: There is a plant growing in the flowerpot.
• garden fork: I used the garden fork to mix the fertilzer into the soil.
• grass shears: I picked up the grass shears and started cutting the grass.
• hod: I picked some beans and put them in my hod.
• hosepipe: Alice turned on the hosepipe and started watering the grass.
• rake: I use my rake to collect the autumn leaves.
• shed: We have lots of tools in our shed.
• soil: I planted some seeds in the soil.
• spade: Sam used the spade to dig a large hole.
• tree: There’s a large apple tree in our garden.
• trowel: I picked up the trowel and started to dig.
• vegetable plot: We have carrots and potatoes growing in our vegetable plot.
• watering can, watering pot: Peter watered his roses with a watering can.
• weed: There are too many weeds growing in our garden.
• wheelbarrow: Jim pushed the wheelbarrow full of soil across the garden.

形容词/副词的作用

形容词比较级 §

比较级相当于汉语中“比…更…”这种句型，最高级则表示在某个范围“最…”的概念。最高级在使用时前面通常要加定冠词 the，并有一个短语或从句限定其范围。

比较级通常用于两者之间的比较，最高级需要三个或者以上比较对象。

在2者比较时 than 是固定的(中文里的"比")，翻译为 “和....相比 + 更 ...”。

有一些双音节词既可在单词结尾加-er，-est，也可与 more/less 和 most/least 连用，如 narrow，clever， common，pleasant 等。

• clever → cleverer → more clever
• fun ^{adj. 快乐} → more fun ^{（美国人用）}

介词短语限定最高级的范围

记忆口诀:好、坏、多、少、老、远 §