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Comparison of Adjectives

This document discusses the different degrees of comparison for adjectives: positive, comparative, and superlative. It provides examples for each degree and explains the common rules for forming the comparative and superlative degrees based on an adjective's ending. For example, one-syllable adjectives typically add -er and -est, while adjectives ending in -y change the y to i before adding those endings. Some irregular adjectives also change their spelling. The document clarifies that absolute adjectives do not have comparative or superlative forms.

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Comparison of Adjectives

This document discusses the different degrees of comparison for adjectives: positive, comparative, and superlative. It provides examples for each degree and explains the common rules for forming the comparative and superlative degrees based on an adjective's ending. For example, one-syllable adjectives typically add -er and -est, while adjectives ending in -y change the y to i before adding those endings. Some irregular adjectives also change their spelling. The document clarifies that absolute adjectives do not have comparative or superlative forms.

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ADJECTIVES IN DEGREES OF

COMPARISON
Teacher Lorna Victor- Matienzo
Let’s play a game!
• Who is good at Tik-Tok?
• Who is better than her at Tik-Tok?
• Who is the best Tik-Toker in your batch?

• Who is helpful in class?


• Who is more helpful than him/her?
• Who is the most helpful in your batch?
Degrees of Comparison of Adjectives
1. Positive Degree – used when nothing is compared in a
sentence
Examples: He is a responsible father.
Today was a wonderful day.

2. Comparative Degree – used in comparing only two


persons, places or things
Examples: Sky’s hair is longer
than Nowee’s. She is
more helpful than him.
3. Superlative Degree – used in comparing three or
more persons, places, or things
Examples: That was the funniest movie I have ever
seen. That
brand of cellphone is the least expensive
among the three.
 How do you form the comparative and superlative
degress of adjectives?

- One syllable and some two-syllable adjectives form


their comparative and superlative degrees by adding
–er and –est
Positive Comparative Superlative
young younger youngest
old older oldest
long longer longest
 How do you form the comparative and superlative
degress of adjectives?
- Adjectives ending in –e form their comparative and
superlative degree by adding –r and –st.

Positive Comparative Superlative


large larger largest
brave braver bravest
wide wider widest
 How do you form the comparative and superlative
degress of adjectives?

- Adjectives ending in –y preceded by a consonant,


change y to i and add –er and –est to form the
comparative and superlative degree
Positive Comparative Superlative
easy easier easiest
angry angrier angriest
friendly friendlier friendliest
 How do you form the comparative and superlative
degress of adjectives?

- Adjectives ending with a vowel and a consonant,


double the last consonant and add –er or –est to
form the comparative and superlative degree
Positive Comparative Superlative
big bigger biggest
sad sadder saddest
hot hotter hottest
 How do you form the comparative and superlative
degress of adjectives?
- Some two-syllable adjectives and those with three
syllables form their comparative and superlative
degrees by putting more or less and most or least
before the adjective.
Positive Comparative Superlative
helpful more helpful most helpful
enthusiastic more enthusiastic most enthusiastic
expensive more expensive most expensive
 How do you form the comparative and superlative
degrees of adjectives?
- Some adjectives can be compared by the two
methods previously mentioned.
Positive Comparative Superlative
worthy worthier or more worthiest or most
worthy worthy
shiny shinier or more shiny shiniest or most
shiny
 How do you form the comparative and superlative
degrees of adjectives?

- Some adjectives are irregular. They change their


spelling to form the comparative and superlative
degrees.
Positive Comparative Superlative
good, well better best
many, much more most
far farther farthest
far further furthest
Positive Comparative Superlative
little less least
bad, ill worse - worst
far farther farthest

Never use more, most, less, least with –er and –est
adjectives.
Wrong: more longer – most longest
Correct: longer - longest
Absolute Adjectives
-no comparative or superlative forms
dead
perfect
correct
empty
full
round
unique
As + Adjective +As
-shows equality
Examples: The man is as poor as a rat.
The paper is as light as the feather.

Too + Adjective + To
-describes the state or condition
Examples: Grandfather is still too weak to stand.
The river is too dirty to drink.
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