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Understanding Superlative Adjectives

This document discusses superlative adjectives in 3 sentences: 1) Superlatives are used to compare one person or thing to a group and can also compare groups; they do not use "than" and use "the" before the adjective. 2) Some common superlative endings are -est for one-syllable words and -iest for two-syllable words ending in -y; irregular superlatives have different forms like best/worst instead of gooder/badder. 3) Superlative spelling rules include doubling the last consonant before -est for words like big/biggest and changing y to i and adding -iest for words like ugly/ugliest

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Understanding Superlative Adjectives

This document discusses superlative adjectives in 3 sentences: 1) Superlatives are used to compare one person or thing to a group and can also compare groups; they do not use "than" and use "the" before the adjective. 2) Some common superlative endings are -est for one-syllable words and -iest for two-syllable words ending in -y; irregular superlatives have different forms like best/worst instead of gooder/badder. 3) Superlative spelling rules include doubling the last consonant before -est for words like big/biggest and changing y to i and adding -iest for words like ugly/ugliest

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SUPERLATIVE

ADJECTIVES
Group b
Andres Camilo Calderon Diaz
Julieth Olaya Guzman
Cesar Augusto Bonilla
Valentina Gutierrez
Sofia Grajales.
SUPERLATIVES
o We use superlatives to compare
one person or things with several
people or things (more than two)

o We can also compare one group


Subject+ to be + The
with other groups.
+ adjective superlative
o In superlatives we remove ¨Than¨ + complement.
in the sentence.
Example:
Cesar is the oldest
o Use the article ¨The¨ before a
in the class.
superlative.
SUPERLATIVES SPELLING
RULLES
Some superlative adjectives change their spelling:

■ When we have one-syllable ■ When we have two-syllable,


adjectives ending in –e , add –st. adjectives ending –y, change –y
 Nice – nicest to –I and add –est.
 Young – youngest  Ugly – Ugliest
 Cold – coldest  Bossy – Bossiest
 Busy – Busiest
■ Subject+ to be + The +  Subject+ to be + The +
adjective + est + complement. adjective + iest +
complement.

Valentina is the youngest in the


college. I am the happiest man in the world.
SUPERLATIVES SPELLING
RULLES
Irregular superlatives
■ When we have one- syllable ■ In irregular superlatives we have
adjectives with a consonant + verbs that change:
vowel + consonant spelling, double  Good– Gooddest – Best.
the last consonant and add – est.  Bad – Baddest – Worst.
 Little – Littlest – Least.
 Big – Biggest  Much/many – Muchest – Most.
 Wet – Wettest  Subject+ to be + The +
 Sad – saddest adjective irregular in
 Fit – Fittest superlative + complement.

China is the biggest country. Juliana is the best teacher languages in


the college.
sources of
information:
Book LANGUAGE Leader/ peg 110 / superlatives.

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