Powerpoint to teach comparative and superlative adjectives & adverbs

1. Comparatives &
Superlatives
Adjectives & Adverbs

2. Adjectives
Adjectives describe nouns and pronouns
• It's a big table. (size)
• It's a round table. (shape)
• It's an old table. (age)
• It's a brown table. (colour)
• It's an English table. (origin)
• It's a wooden table. (material)
• It's a lovely table. (opinion)
• It's a coffee table. (purpose)
They provide further information about an object's size, shape,
age, colour, origin or material:

3. Comparative Adjectives
Comparatives
are used to
compare
differences
between two
objects.
For one syllable
adjectives, we
add –er
tall - taller
For adjectives
ending in ‘y’,
we add –ier
pretty - prettier
For adjectives with
two or more
syllables, we use
more/less +
adjective
more/less
beautiful
We need to use
‘than’ to compare
two nouns.
• Mike is funnier than
John.
• Paris is more beautiful
than Madrid.
BUT we have
irregular adjectives
as well. Such as:
•Good better
•Bad worse
•Far further
•Little less
REMEMBER: If the adjective ends
with consonant-vowel-consonant,
the last consonant doubles:
big - bigger

4. Practice
 Difficult Good
 Big Famous
 New Happy
 Old Hot
 Young Delicious
 Attractive Small
 Careful Rich
 Cold Nice
 Expensive Bad
 Cheap Hungry
 Fat Slow

5. As + Adjective + As
We use as + adjective +
as to make comparisons
when the things we
compare are equal in
some way
The weather
this winter is
as cold as last
year.
We use not as +
adjective + as to make
comparisons between
things which aren’t
equal
This bag is not
as heavy as I
thought it
would be.

6. Superlative Adjectives
Superlatives are used to
describe an object
which is at the upper or
lower limit of a quality
(the tallest, the
fastest). They are used
to compare a group of
objects.
For one syllable
adjectives we
add –est
tall – tallest
For adjectives
ending in ‘y’ we
add –iest
pretty – prettiest
For adjectives with
two or more syllables
we use the most/the
least + adjective
the most/the least
beautiful
Mike is the funniest
of his brothers.
Paris is the most
beautiful city in
the world.
Irregular adjectives:
• Good – The best
• Bad – The worst
• Far – The furthest
• Little – The least

7. Practice
 Difficult Good
 Big Famous
 New Happy
 Old Hot
 Young Delicious
 Attractive Small
 Careful Rich
 Cold Nice
 Expensive Bad
 Cheap Hungry
 Fat Slow

9. Adverbs
Adverbs describe actions (verbs), adjectives and other adverbs:
• How does he run? Quickly (describes a verb)
He runs quickly.
•How beautiful is she? Increbibly beautiful (describes an adjective)
She’s incredibly beautiful.
• How slowly does he walk? Very slowly (the adverb ‘very’ describes the adverb
‘slowly’)
He walks very slowly.
• slow – slowly
• quick - quickly
Most adverbs are formed by adding –ly to an adjective
• Hard – hard
• Fast – fast
• Late – late
• Good – well
BUT we also have some irregular adverbs.

10. Practice
 Perfect
 Sad
 Good
 Late
 Angry
 Careful
 Happy
 Quick
 Beautiful
 Slow
 Bad

11. Comparative Adverbs
With adverbs ending in –
ly we use more/less to
form the comparative
• Quickly – more/less
quickly
• My brother talks more
quickly than me.
With short adverbs that
do not end in –ly the
comparative is formed
adding –er
• Fast – faster
• Peter swims faster
than John.
Some adverbs are
irregular:
• Badly – worse
• Far – further
• Little – less
• Well - better

12. As + Adverb + As
We use as + adverb + as
to make comparisons
when the things we
compare are equal in
some way
I finished my
exam as
quickly as my
friends.
We use (not) as + adverb + as
to make comparisons
between things which aren’t
equal
Jane doesn’t
write as
quickly as
Paula.

13. Superlative Adverbs
With adverbs ending in –ly
we use the most/the least
to form the superlative
• Quickly – the most/the
least quickly
• From all our teachers,
our Maths teacher
speaks the most quickly.
With short adverbs that do
not end in –ly the
comparative is formed
adding –est
• Fast – the fastest
• Maria runs the fastest in
her class.
Some adverbs are
irregular:
• Badly – the worst
• Far – the furthest
• Little – the least
• Well – the best

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