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The host discusses comparative forms of adjectives. She uses her own day as an example, mentioning words like "later" and "quicker" to describe her experiences. She explains that for short adjectives or adverbs, we add "er" to make the comparative form. If the word ends in "e", we just add "r". For words ending in "y", we drop the "y" and add "ier". For longer adjectives, we use "more". She also mentions using "much" or "a lot" to emphasize the difference, and repeating comparatives for emphasis. She concludes by mentioning the irregular comparatives "worse" and "better". Hello, and welcome to 2-Minute Grammar. I'm your host, Rifa. Today we are talking about comparative forms of adjectives. So let's start with comparative. We use them to compare one thing or person with another. To elaborate on this grammar topic, let's talk about my day. We can use questions like, How was your day? Okay, my day wasn't great, actually. I woke up later than usual, so I took the bus because it's quicker than walking, and it's easier than cycling. But the traffic was much busier than normal, and we went slower and slower, and people became more and more impatient. And the slower the bus went, the more impatient the people became. You have probably heard lots of comparatives there in my story. We had later and quicker. I said I woke up later than usual, and the bus was quicker than walking. To make the comparative form of short adjectives or adverbs, we just add the letter ER. So quick becomes quicker. But if the word already ends in E, we just add the letter R, like late and later. Remember that we often use the word then in comparative sentences, but sometimes we can leave it out. For example, in the question, which is quicker, the bus or the train? I also said that the bus is easier than cycling, and the traffic was much busier than normal. For adjectives and adverbs, that end in the letter Y, we make comparatives by losing the letter Y and adding the letters IER. So the comparative of easy is easier, and busy becomes busier. In fact, I said the traffic was much busier. Now we can use much or a lot before an adjective or adverb to emphasize the difference. Much busier, a lot easier. To make comparative forms of most adjectives with two or more syllables, we use more. For example, impatient. Impatient has three syllables. Im-pa-tient. So the comparative of impatient is more impatient. Lastly, to emphasize how something changes, we can repeat comparatives or the word more with and in the middle. For example, the bus went slower and slower, and the people became more and more impatient. So you can see my day wasn't great. It was kind of bad. But it could have been worse if the bus had broken down. So there you go. We now learned that comparative adjectives for bad is worse, and it is irregular. And I hope you have a better day tomorrow, or I have a better day tomorrow. And better is the comparative adjective of good. So now that's a wrap. You now understand that there are regular and irregular comparative adjectives. For more examples, please visit the website learningenglishwithrifa.com. Thanks for listening to the podcast version of This Speaks Grammar. See you soon for more grammar. Bye.