■й' Для выражения меньшей меры качества прилагательное в основной форме ставится между not so ... as:
June is not so hot as July. Июнь не такой жаркий, как '
• , , июль.
§ 308—316. In English adjectives have no number, case or gender distinctions. Qualitative adjectives have the positi ve, the comparative and the superlative degrees. The compa rative and the superlative degrees are formed in two ways:
1) by means of the endings -er and -est (synthetic forms);
2) by means of the words more and most (analytical forms). ■ The following adjectives have synthetic forms of the
degrees of comparison:
a) all one-syllable adjectives; ■*' - - - *'
b) adjectives of two syllables ending in -y, -er, -le, -ow and those having the stress on the second syllable. Adjectives of three or more syllables and many
adjectives of two syllables form their degrees of compa rison analytically.
The following spelling rules should be observed:
a) if the adjective ends in -e, it is dropped before the
endings-er,-est; - .
b) if the adjective ends in one consonant preceded by a short vowel, the final consonant is doubled before -er and -est;
c) if the adjective ends in -y preceded by a consonant, the -y is changed into -i before the endings -er and -est.
The comparative degree can be emphasized by means of the words much, far, still.
When equal degrees of a quality are compared, the adjective in the positive degree is placed within as... as.
To express a smaller degree of a quality the adjective in the positive degree is placed within not so ». as.
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, V* ЧИСЛИТЕЛЬНОЕ * j v
(THE NUMERAL) ’ ~
§ 317, Числительные в английском языке подразделяют ся на количественные (cardinal numerals) и порядковые (ordinal numerals).
Количественные числительные бывают простыми (simple), производными (derived) и составными (composite). Простыми являются количественные числительные от 1 до 12, а также 100, 1,000 и 1,000,000:
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