1 / 7

SUPERLATIVES

SUPERLATIVES. We use the superlatives to talk about the differences between three or more people , animals or things and to describe someone or something by saying that they have more of a particular quality than any other of their kind . FORM.

early
Download Presentation

SUPERLATIVES

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. SUPERLATIVES

  2. Weusethesuperlativesto talk aboutthedifferencesbetweenthreeormorepeople,animalsorthingsandto describe someone or something by saying that they have more of a particular quality than any other of their kind.

  3. FORM • Tomakesuperlativesentences, wehavetwodifferentway: Add -est- totheadjective Talltallest Shortshortest Orplace –themost- beforetheadjective BeautifulMostbeautiful IntelligentMostintelligent

  4. EXAMPLES: • He’s the most intelligent man I’ve ever met. • This is the biggest piece of cake. • She is thetallestgirl in theroom. • It is turning out to be the most beautiful, most quiet, largest, most generous, summer I've ever seen.

  5. RULES • two syllable adjectives which end in -y usually form by adding –est;

  6. The following adjectives have irregular comparative and superlative forms:

  7. IfadjectiveendConsonant+vowel+consonantdoublethelastconsonant:IfadjectiveendConsonant+vowel+consonantdoublethelastconsonant:

More Related