Language Arts Grade Four

Unit Sixteen, Lesson Four: Suffix: -er and -est

  1. dress
  2. lesson
  3. freshness
  4. fitness
  5. fearless
  6. glass
  7. mission
  8. pass
  9. movies
  10. law
  1. crust
  2. plate
  3. recycle
  4. aquatic
  5. dunes
  6. hungry
  7. stove
  8. pipe
  9. wells
  10. springs
Suffix: -er and -est

When you add -est to an adjective you create what is called the superlative form of that adjective. Here are some examples: 


	Adjective		Comparative
	  tall			  tallest
	  small			  smallest
	  pretty		  prettiest
	  scary			  scariest
	  big			  biggest
	  large			  largest
As you can see, when adding -est to an adjective you sometimes must drop the y and add -iest and sometimes you must double the final consonant.

Here are some adjectives in their superlative form used in sentences: 


  Lisa is the laziest child in her family.

  Bill had the scariest costume at the party.

  Jill is the youngest child in her family.

Bad and Good

Here are the comparative and superlative forms of bad and good. As you can tell these are irregular adjectives since they don't follow the usual pattern for forming comparatives and superlatives. 


     ADJECTIVE		COMPARATIVE		SUPERLATIVE

	bad		  worse			  worst

	good		  better		  best

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