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3. Adjectives and
Degree
of
Comparison

4. Checklist
 Identify adjectives and its degree of
comparison.
 Construct sentences using adjective and
its degree of comparison.

5. Adjectives..
- are words that describe a noun
- are words that describe a person,
a place, a thing or an event.

6. Adjectives are also
used to compare a thing to
another things, person,
places, animals and events.

7. Degree of
Comparison

8. 1. Positive Degree
 focused only one (1) noun.
No comparison

9. For example:
• The pencil is long.
• The room is dirty.
• The pupils are active.
• Tina is cheerful.
• Darwin is tall.

10. 2. Comparative Degree of
Comparison
when two persons , animals, things and
events are being compared.
 one or two syllable word ( +er / +ier).
Two or more syllable ( + less / +more)

11. Example:
•Today is colder than yesterday.
( cold )
•My grandfather older than me.
( old )

12. Example:
•The ocean is deeper than the sea.
( deep )
•Maya is happier today than
yesterday.
( happy )

13. Example:
•Skate board is expensive.
•A motorcycle is more expensive than a
skateboard.
• Tina is cheerful.
• Kris is more cheerful than Tina.

14. 2. Superlative Degree of
Comparison
used when three or more persons, things,
animals, and place are being compared.
one or two syllable word (+est +iest)
Two or more syllables ( + least / +most)

15. For example:
•* The pencil is long.
• * The marker is longer than the
pencil.
• * The ruler is the longest among
the three

16. Example:
•Mae is the brightest girl in the
class.
•Dona wears the prettiest dress
in the fall.
•Makibao is the fastest among
the five horses.

17. •Pandaca pigmaea is the smallest fish in the
world. ( small )
•Ceres is the biggest asteroid ever known
based on research among the asteroids.
( big )
•That duck is the ugliest duck I’ve ever seen.
( ugly )

18. • Skate board is expensive.
• A motorcycle is more expensive than a
skateboard.
• But a car is the most expensive among
the three.

19. Some are adjectives are irregular:
Bad worse worst
Good better best
Far further furthest
Far farther farthest
Little less least
Much more most
Many more most

20. Adjectives of one syllable:
add
-er and -est:
Strong stronger the strongest
Wise wiser the wisest
Dry drier the driest
Hot hotter the hottest

21. Some adjectives are composed of two or more
syllables like:
delicious important
expensive dangerous
useful colorful
popular beautiful
difficult helpful

22. Allen said “ Apples are delicious”. Later
on he said “ Guava are more delicious
than apples”.
This time he said “ Mangoes are the most
delicious”.

24. Assignment
•Create a short paragraph
describing your family.
Write it on a short bond
paper

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Prepared by: Liezel H. Paras