How do you describe her?

Can you make a complete sentence with your description?

DIANA ADAM

What is an adjective?

Why do we use adjective?We often use adjectives to give

more information about things / people (nouns)

For example:

He is a man.

What kind of man is he?

JIM CARREY

He is a crazy man.

We can also compare nouns by using the comparative and superlative forms of an adjective.

Comparatives are used to compare two things/people.

What are the basic rules?

Adjectives Comparatives

With most short adjectives- tall- short

+ er

taller (than)

shorter (than)

With short adj. ending in e

- nice

- large

+ r

nicer (than)

larger (than)

With short adj. ending in a consonant + y

- heavy

- happy

- y + ier

-heavier-happier

Adjectives Comparatives

With short adj. ending in

a vowel + a consonant

- big

- thin

Double the consonant + er

-bigger (than)

-thinner (than)

With adj. of three or more syllables

- beautiful

- interesting

+ more

-more beautiful (than)

-more interesting (than)

What about other adjectives such as “good” and “bad”?

What the girl said?

Back

“The weather in picture 1 is better than the weather in picture 2.”

She said,

What adjective did the girl use?

Adjectives Comparatives

worse (than)

adjectives change the word - good

better (than)

-bad

What are the basic rules?

We add –est to short adjectives and use “most” for long adjectives.

The basic rules are comparatives.

Can you make sentences to compare the following people?

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TEACHER: DIANA ADAM