Language Arts Grade Six

Unit Six, Lesson Three: Adjectives


  1. mask
  2. trash
  3. flash
  4. gash
  5. flask
  6. geology
  7. landforms
  8. basin
  9. range
  10. plateau
  1. valley
  2. summit
  3. pass
  4. trail
  5. route
  6. survive
  7. beaver
  8. trapper
  9. individual
  10. rugged
Adjectives

Adjectives come in three forms: regular, comparative, and superlative. The comparative form is used to compare two nouns. The superlative form is used when comparing more than two nouns. Generally the comparative form of an adjective is formed by adding -er to the regular adjective and the superlative is formed by adding -est to the regular adjectives. With some adjectives you must use "more" for the comparative instead of adding -er and "most" for the superlative instead of adding -est.


	Regular			Comparative		Superlative

	 strong			 stronger		 strongest
	 cold			 colder			 coldest
	 heavy			 heavier		 heaviest
	 mean			 meaner			 meanest
	 enormous		 more enormous		 most enormous
	 careful		 more careful		 most careful
	 clean			 cleaner		 cleanest

You will notice that when adding -er and -est to heavy, that the y was dropped and changed to i before the -er or -est was added. In general, adding -er or -est is very much like adding s or -ed to the end of a word.

Here are a few more adjectives in their regular, comparative, and superlative forms:


	Regular			Comparative		Superlative

	 large			 larger			 largest
	 athletic		 more athletic		 most athletic
	 flat			 flatter		 flattest
	 fuzzy			 fuzzier		 fuzziest
	 terrible		 more terrible		 most terrible
	 strange		 stranger		 strangest
	 tasty			 tastier		 tastiest

There are some special case adjectives which have irregular forms for the comparative and superlative. One example is the adjective "bad". Its comparative form is "worse" and its superlative form is "worst".


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