Adjectives

Adjectives

Are words that describe the qualities or states of being of nouns: enormous, doglike, silly, yellow, fun, fast.

Comparative

Superlative

Comparative adjectives are used to compare a certain characteristic or quality between two or more things, animals or people.

Superlative adjectives express the maximum degree of a characteristic of an element with respect to others of its same group or condition.

A group of words with a verb

which describes a noun

Clause

Example

...Who is a wearning a

basketball cap...

Which is drinking milk

Phrase

A group for words wich

describes a noun

Example

Black and white

Young handsome

Photo

Cat

TV

Boy

Man

Irregular

Good, better, best

Bad, worse, worst

Far, further, furthest

Much, more, most

Little, less, least

Short word

Irregular

Long word

Y ending

More

Er+

Better

Clean = cleaner

Dirty = dirtier

Short word

Long word

Irregular

Est+

More intelligent

Cleanest

Y ending

Dirtiest

The Most

Most intelligent

The best