Inside This Unit: The Full Breakdown
Theme 3 (Beauty & Aesthetics) adds comparatives/superlatives, adjective forms, and relative pronouns.
Why it matters
Comparison and the conditional let you express opinions about art and culture.
Key concepts
- Comparative più/meno … di/che; superlative il più … and -issimo.
- Conditional (vorrei) for politeness/hypotheticals.
- Relatives: che (subject/object), cui (after prepositions).
Comparison and Conditional
Compare with più/meno…di/che, form relative and absolute (-issimo) superlatives, use the conditional for nuance, and join clauses with che/cui while discussing Italian arts.
AP exam tip
Use the conditional and superlatives to add sophistication to opinion writing.
Connections to other units
- Theme 2: Builds on tense control.
- Theme 4: Opinion structures feed argumentation.
