Michael is fat Garfield is fatter than Michael Justin Bieber is the fattest The adjectives fat fatter and fattest are called the positive comparative and superlative respectively For most adjectives of one syllable and some twosyllable adjectives ID: 477919
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COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE ADJECTIVES
Michael is fat
Garfield is fatter than Michael
Justin
Bieber
is the fattest.Slide2
The adjectives
fat, fatter and fattest
are called the positive, comparative and superlative respectively.For most adjectives of one syllable and some two-syllable adjectives
–er is added to for comparatives and –
est is added to form superlatives. Example : big
bigger biggest
small smaller
smallestSlide3
For adjectives of two or more syllables, the comparative is formed by adding
more / less before the adjective, and the superlative is formed by adding most / least
before the adjective.Several adjectives have irregular comparatives and superlatives and follow a different pattern.Slide4
POSITIVE
COMPARATIVE
SUPERLATIVE
good , well
better
best
bad
worse
worst
many / much
more
most
little / less
lesser
leastSlide5
EXERCISE 1 : Give the correct forms of the adjectives in the following sentences.
How is Sebastian? Is he _________ (good) today?
Mr
Lee is the_________ (rich) man in town.The
_________ (long) river in Malaysia is Sungai Rajang.Which is the _________
(tall) building in the world?The public is the_________ (good) judge.
Lead is _________ (heavy) than sodium.
Hazirah
needs a
_________ (nutritious) diet than the one she is following now.
He gave the boys a
_________ (valuable) lesson in life.
Among all her classmates, Joel lives the
_________ (far).
Of the two evils, he chose the
_________ (little) one.
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The pictures show two houses. In your groups, study both pictures and write a paragraph to compare the two houses.
House A
House B