Comparative and Superlative Adjectives With Great Appreciation
to my Grammar Three Students
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Basic Adjectives The most common adjectives in English. When we
practice spelling the words correctly, our language improves
(pronunciation and remembering the meanings). Listen and write.
There will be about 30 words. If you have a pen and paper we can
get started. Need more time? Click the or To start and stop
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How did you do? Correct Spelling good bad far important
beautiful new high old great big small large young long little
intelligent low early late difficult easy short fine poor rich hot
cold simple complex nice
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Using an Adjective in a Sentence To describe a noun Example:
Benji likes to sit on the black chair. As an object in a sentence
Rashid is very young. We might think of this as the base form of
the adjective. To compare things and groups of things. Comparative:
Bahrain is smaller than Qatar. Superlative: Nasser is the smartest
student in the class.
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Adjective generally appear before a Noun Adjectives make your
writing more interesting! Adjectives help the nouns come to
life.
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Adjective to Compare Nouns of the Same Kind or Type It is
common to see these comparatives ending in er. Example: Ali is
taller than his brother. Longer (more syllables in the adjective)
have more coming before the noun Example: Ahmed is more intelligent
than his sister.
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Remember the List of Adjectives? Here is how they look and
sound in the comparative form. good-better bad- worse
Important-more important Beautiful-more beautiful New-newer
High-higher Old-older Great-greater Big-bigger Small-smaller
Large-larger Young-younger Long-longer Little-littler
Intelligent-more intelligent Low-lower Early-earlier Late-later
Difficult-more difficult Easy easier Short,-shorter Fine-finer
Poor-poorer Rich-richer Hot-hotter Cold-colder Simple simpler
Complex-more complex Nice-nicer
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Comparing Time Zones Doha, Qatar time is one hour earlier than
Abu Dhabi, United Emirates Arabia.
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Critical Parts of a Comparative Sentence! Dont forget the verb
(frequently is or are) You must have than before the second noun in
the sentence. Rashid is younger than Mohammad Abdulla. Gold is more
precious than silver. Diamonds are more valuable than rubies.
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Superlatives! The BEST use of an adjective in grammar. Sample
sentence: Water is the most important resource in the world. Note:
We still must have a verb and (this must be included) in the. Get
that pencil and work on these Superlative adjectives, listen
carefully. Stop the recording if you need more time.
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Another way of comparing Salim is as tall as Ahmed. What are
all the moving parts? Salim and Ahmed, proper nouns Salim is the
subject, Ahmed is being compared Verb: is Your Turn! Write your own
sentence using: Mohsin /car/ is / fast / Hamad / car. Mohsin and
Hamad will be adjectives (telling us whose car it is) so add s
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and the sentence I was looking for: Mohsins car is as fast as
Ahmeds car. While this may upset Mohsin, notice where we can put
the not for a negative statement: Mohsins car is not as fast as
Ahmeds car.
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Well Done! You are among the best students in the world when
you work and study harder than anyone else in the world! Find the:
Comparative adjective Superlative adjective the verbs The phrases
that HAVE to appear with comparatives and superlatives