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Comparing with Adjectives
Houghton Mifflin Textp.150-151
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What are adjectives?
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Adjectives can also show how people, places, or things are alike or different.
• Add –er to most adjectives to compare two persons, places, or things.
Mars is a smaller planet than Jupiter.
• Add –est to most adjectives to compare more than two persons, places, or things.
Pluto is the smallest planet of all.
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Which adjective completes the sentence correctly?
Venus has a ___________ year than Jupiter.
shorter
shortest
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Which adjective completes the sentence correctly?
Jupiter is a ______________ planet than Venus.
colder
coldest
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Which adjective completes the sentence correctly?
Mercury is ___________ of all to the sun.
nearer
nearest
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Which adjective completes the sentence correctly?
Uranus is ___________ than Neptune.
warmer
warmest
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Which adjective completes the sentence correctly?
A year on Earth is ____________ than a year on Mars.
shorter
shortest
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HELP! Please edit this list of facts from a website about jupiter. It has 5 errors.
• Jupiter is greater in size than its neighbor Mars.
• It is the greater in size of all the planets.• Earth is nearest to the Sun than Jupiter is.• Jupiter has a longest year than Earth.• It is the brighter of all the planets except
one.• Only Venus appears brightest than
Jupiter.Click here
to see correctionsl
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We can use adjectives that compare to help expand sentences and make them more interesting.
Example:Alaska is a large state.
Of all of the states of the United States of America, Alaska is the largest.
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Can you expand these sentences by adding comparative and superlative adjectives to make them more interesting?
• The lion tamer is tall.
• The man on stilts is tall.
• The white horse is fast.
• The elephant is big.