Abeka 5th grade Unit 6 Language B

Superlative irregular comparisons

best, worst, most, farthest, most, most, best, least

negative adverbs examples:

not or (n't) scarcely, hardly, never, barely, no, nothing, none, nobody, no one

positive degree

nothing is being compared. no ending is added to the adjective to form the positive

Comparative degree

2 people or things are being compared, add -er to the end of a one-syllable adjective (example smarter)

modifiers

Good and Well

Superlative

Three or more people or things are being compared, add -est to the end of a one-syllable adjective. Use most or least if it is a two or more syllables (example Smartest)

Well

adverb or adjective and describes someone's health or tells how well a person does something

good

always and adjective, can appear right before the noun it describes, or as a adjective in the predicate describing the subject

Words that say no

are called negative adverbs, and can only have one per sentence

Comparative irregular comparisons

better, worse, more, farther, more, more, better, less

Positive irregular comparisons

good, bad, many, far, much, several, well, little

degrees of adjective comparison

positive, comparative, superlative