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ADJECTIVES: Degree of Comparison

ADJECTIVES: degrees of comparison What are Adjectives? An adjective is a word that describes a person, place, or thing (nouns and pronouns), and they generally appear before the word they modify. blue donkey small car black, Scandinavlan snake Adjective Degrees FORMS Positive Comparative Superlative • non-comparative • base adjective • comparing two nouns adj+ "than" • compare more than two nouns "the"+adj Frank is sweet. Gwen is sweeter Mirror mirror on the wall, than Frank who's the fairest of them all? Irregular Comparative As a matter of fact, this is the best you've looked all week. $ Another oddball is the good better best little less least positive "well," as in"healthy." Syllable 1 syllable BUT! Adjectives made of two syllables >2 syllable • can be modified either way. "less" -er and -est ADJECTIVES ENDINGS "more" "most" bigger planes fattest sheep less energetic more expensive most fortunate -er, -le, -y, -ow end in a consonant -ous, -ed, -re, and"-y" -Ing, -ful -er and -est use "-er" and "-est" +"i" "more" "most" pretty prettler, prettlest early earlier, earliest ONE LAST SIMPLE RULE! If all of this this sounds intimidating, at the very least remember to never use both at the same time. Let's examine the positive "slow" as an example: Wrong: most slowest racehorse Right: most slow racehorse Right: slowest racehorse ©2011 Grammar.net Folow Us on Twitter All rights reserved @grammarnet ADJECTIVES: degrees of comparison What are Adjectives? An adjective is a word that describes a person, place, or thing (nouns and pronouns), and they generally appear before the word they modify. blue donkey small car black, Scandinavlan snake Adjective Degrees FORMS Positive Comparative Superlative • non-comparative • base adjective • comparing two nouns adj+ "than" • compare more than two nouns "the"+adj Frank is sweet. Gwen is sweeter Mirror mirror on the wall, than Frank who's the fairest of them all? Irregular Comparative As a matter of fact, this is the best you've looked all week. $ Another oddball is the good better best little less least positive "well," as in"healthy." Syllable 1 syllable BUT! Adjectives made of two syllables >2 syllable • can be modified either way. "less" -er and -est ADJECTIVES ENDINGS "more" "most" bigger planes fattest sheep less energetic more expensive most fortunate -er, -le, -y, -ow end in a consonant -ous, -ed, -re, and"-y" -Ing, -ful -er and -est use "-er" and "-est" +"i" "more" "most" pretty prettler, prettlest early earlier, earliest ONE LAST SIMPLE RULE! If all of this this sounds intimidating, at the very least remember to never use both at the same time. Let's examine the positive "slow" as an example: Wrong: most slowest racehorse Right: most slow racehorse Right: slowest racehorse ©2011 Grammar.net Folow Us on Twitter All rights reserved @grammarnet ADJECTIVES: degrees of comparison What are Adjectives? An adjective is a word that describes a person, place, or thing (nouns and pronouns), and they generally appear before the word they modify. blue donkey small car black, Scandinavlan snake Adjective Degrees FORMS Positive Comparative Superlative • non-comparative • base adjective • comparing two nouns adj+ "than" • compare more than two nouns "the"+adj Frank is sweet. Gwen is sweeter Mirror mirror on the wall, than Frank who's the fairest of them all? Irregular Comparative As a matter of fact, this is the best you've looked all week. $ Another oddball is the good better best little less least positive "well," as in"healthy." Syllable 1 syllable BUT! Adjectives made of two syllables >2 syllable • can be modified either way. "less" -er and -est ADJECTIVES ENDINGS "more" "most" bigger planes fattest sheep less energetic more expensive most fortunate -er, -le, -y, -ow end in a consonant -ous, -ed, -re, and"-y" -Ing, -ful -er and -est use "-er" and "-est" +"i" "more" "most" pretty prettler, prettlest early earlier, earliest ONE LAST SIMPLE RULE! If all of this this sounds intimidating, at the very least remember to never use both at the same time. Let's examine the positive "slow" as an example: Wrong: most slowest racehorse Right: most slow racehorse Right: slowest racehorse ©2011 Grammar.net Folow Us on Twitter All rights reserved @grammarnet ADJECTIVES: degrees of comparison What are Adjectives? An adjective is a word that describes a person, place, or thing (nouns and pronouns), and they generally appear before the word they modify. blue donkey small car black, Scandinavlan snake Adjective Degrees FORMS Positive Comparative Superlative • non-comparative • base adjective • comparing two nouns adj+ "than" • compare more than two nouns "the"+adj Frank is sweet. Gwen is sweeter Mirror mirror on the wall, than Frank who's the fairest of them all? Irregular Comparative As a matter of fact, this is the best you've looked all week. $ Another oddball is the good better best little less least positive "well," as in"healthy." Syllable 1 syllable BUT! Adjectives made of two syllables >2 syllable • can be modified either way. "less" -er and -est ADJECTIVES ENDINGS "more" "most" bigger planes fattest sheep less energetic more expensive most fortunate -er, -le, -y, -ow end in a consonant -ous, -ed, -re, and"-y" -Ing, -ful -er and -est use "-er" and "-est" +"i" "more" "most" pretty prettler, prettlest early earlier, earliest ONE LAST SIMPLE RULE! If all of this this sounds intimidating, at the very least remember to never use both at the same time. Let's examine the positive "slow" as an example: Wrong: most slowest racehorse Right: most slow racehorse Right: slowest racehorse ©2011 Grammar.net Folow Us on Twitter All rights reserved @grammarnet ADJECTIVES: degrees of comparison What are Adjectives? An adjective is a word that describes a person, place, or thing (nouns and pronouns), and they generally appear before the word they modify. blue donkey small car black, Scandinavlan snake Adjective Degrees FORMS Positive Comparative Superlative • non-comparative • base adjective • comparing two nouns adj+ "than" • compare more than two nouns "the"+adj Frank is sweet. Gwen is sweeter Mirror mirror on the wall, than Frank who's the fairest of them all? Irregular Comparative As a matter of fact, this is the best you've looked all week. $ Another oddball is the good better best little less least positive "well," as in"healthy." Syllable 1 syllable BUT! Adjectives made of two syllables >2 syllable • can be modified either way. "less" -er and -est ADJECTIVES ENDINGS "more" "most" bigger planes fattest sheep less energetic more expensive most fortunate -er, -le, -y, -ow end in a consonant -ous, -ed, -re, and"-y" -Ing, -ful -er and -est use "-er" and "-est" +"i" "more" "most" pretty prettler, prettlest early earlier, earliest ONE LAST SIMPLE RULE! If all of this this sounds intimidating, at the very least remember to never use both at the same time. Let's examine the positive "slow" as an example: Wrong: most slowest racehorse Right: most slow racehorse Right: slowest racehorse ©2011 Grammar.net Folow Us on Twitter All rights reserved @grammarnet

ADJECTIVES: Degree of Comparison

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Adjectives come in a rainbow of flavors, but they have some rules and regulations when used for comparison. Like anything else, there are also some exceptions to those rules.

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