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THE COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES. Gulliver’s Travels Class V. Yasmin Aleem Ghori Kendriya Vidyalaya MEG & Centre. The comparison is used. when we compare two people or things. The easiest rule is: add the ending –er to one-syllable words and to two syllable words ending in –y , e.g.
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THE COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES Gulliver’s Travels Class V Yasmin Aleem Ghori Kendriya Vidyalaya MEG & Centre
The comparison is used • when we compare two people or things. • The easiest rule is: add the ending –er to one-syllable words and to two syllable words ending in –y, e.g. • Fast – faster • Easy – easier • Big - bigger
Fast Faster
Big Bigger
Superlative • The superlative of a word is used to compare three or more things/people and to pick out one thing/person as more “X” than all the others.
Remember: • Adjectives are compared like this: • big – bigger – biggest • tall – taller – tallest • beautiful – more beautiful– most beautiful
THE BIGGEST BIGGER BIG
tall taller tallest
Long adjectives: • beautiful – more beautiful- most beautiful