Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives

Key Notes:

🌟 Comparative and Superlative Adjectives 🌟

What are Adjectives?

Adjectives describe nouns (people, places, things) 🐶🏠🍎.

• Example: fast car 🏎️, beautiful flower 🌸, tall boy 🧑‍🦱

Comparative Adjectives 🔹

Purpose: Compare two things.

Forming Comparatives:

1. For short adjectives (1 syllable), add -er + than

• Example: tall → taller than 🏀
• fast → faster than 🏎️

2. For adjectives ending in ‘y’, change y → i + er

• happy → happier than 😊

3. For long adjectives (2 or more syllables), use more + adjective

• beautiful → more beautiful than 🌹

Examples:

• My bag 🎒 is heavier than your bag.
• This book 📚 is more interesting than that one.

Superlative Adjectives 🔹

Purpose: Compare three or more things or show the most/least quality.

Forming Superlatives:

1. For short adjectives, add -est

• tall → tallest 🏆
• fast → fastest 🏁

2. For adjectives ending in ‘y’, change y → i + est

• happy → happiest 😃

3. For long adjectives, use most + adjective

• beautiful → most beautiful 🌷

Examples:

• She is the tallest girl in the class 🏫.
• This is the most exciting game 🎮 I have played.

Tips & Rules ✅

• Comparative → Compare 2 things 🔹
• Superlative → Compare 3 or more things 🔹
• Use ‘than’ with comparatives:
• Tom is taller than Jack
• Use ‘the’ with superlatives:
• He is the smartest student in class 🧠

Irregular Adjectives ⚡

Some adjectives do not follow the normal rules:

Adjective	Comparative	Superlative
good 👍	better	best
bad 👎	worse	worst
far 🌍	farther	farthest
little 🧃	less	least
many/much 🌸	more	most

Fun Examples with Emojis 🎉

• My cat 🐱 is cuter than my dog 🐶.
• Today is the hottest day 🌞 of the week.
• This mountain 🏔️ is higher than that hill ⛰️.
• She is the kindest person ❤️ in the class.

Let’s practice!🖊️