This document discusses descriptive adjectives and their degrees of comparison. It defines descriptive adjectives as words that provide information about nouns, such as color, size, shape, taste, quality, sound, or texture. It then explains the positive, comparative, and superlative degrees of adjectives, with the positive simply being the base form and comparative and superlative involving comparison. The document provides rules for regular adjective comparison by changing endings or doubling letters and examples of irregular adjectives that have unique comparative and superlative forms.

1. Descriptive Adjectives

2. Descriptive Adjectives
– are words used to provide
information about a noun.
- It may be about:
•color
•size
•shape
•time
•taste
•age
•quality
•sound
•texture

3. Examples:
 The black horse
is the fastest of all.
 The thin girl
is the smartest in class.
 My mother always
include green, leafy
vegetables in our food.

5. Degree of Adjectives
o The positive degree of an adjective makes no
comparison. It is the base form of the
adjective.
» India is a rich country.
o The comparative degree compares two same
nouns or qualities.
» Philippines is richer than India.
o The superlative degree compares nouns or
qualities in a group.
» China is the richest country of them all.

6. Degree of Regular Adjectives
• If an adjective ends with –y, change –y to i
and add –er (comparative) and –est
(superlative).
• Adjectives that follow CVC pattern, double
the last letter, then add –er (comparative) or
–est (superlative)
Positive Comparative Superlative
dry drier driest
happy happier happiest
Positive Comparative Superlative
fat fatter fattest
sad sadder saddest

7. • Adjectives that have three or more syllables,
add more (comparative) and most
(superlative).
Positive Comparative Superlative
difficult more difficult most difficult
beautiful more beautiful most beautiful

9. Degree of Irregular Adjectives
There are adjectives that are considered
irregular because when it is written in its
comparative and superlative form.
Positive Comparative Superlative
good/well better best
bad worse worst
far (place) farther farthest
far (place/time) further furthest
little less least
much/many more most