This document provides a review for the College Board exam covering parts of speech, specifically adjectives. It defines adjectives as words used to describe nouns and pronouns by indicating qualities and degrees of comparison. The document then explains the positive, comparative, and superlative forms of adjectives and provides examples. It concludes with a 30 question practice exercise for students to choose the correct adjective form.

1. Escuela de Educación Continua
Repaso para la Prueba de Evaluación
y Admisión Universitaria
(College Board)
INGLÉS
Parts of the Speech
Adjectives
Preparado por
Prof. Carmen Cembalest, Enero 1994
Revisado por
Prof. Thelvenitsie Hernández, Junio 2006

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3. V. Adjectives – Describe nouns or pronouns. They are used to indicate size, color,
and they limit quantities and express qualities. Adjectives also establish degrees of
comparison.
Example: Juan bought a large house. (Size)
I rented two boats last Sunday. (Quantity)
My sister has a beautiful house. (Quality)
Comparison of Adjectives:
1. Positive Degree – establish equality between two units.
Example: Manuel is as tall as Joe.
2. Comparative Degree – compare two units to an unequal degree.
Example: Manuel is taller than Joe.
Adjectives of more than one syllable:
More (adjective) than
Example: Manuel is more handsome than Joe.
3. Superlative Degree – compare more than two units to an unequal degree.
Example: Manuel is the tallest in the family.
Adjective of more than one syllable:
The most (adjective)
Example: Manuel is the most handsome in the family.
4. Irregular comparative and superlative forms of adjectives.
Adjective Comparative Superlative
good better than the best
bad worse than the worst
ill worse than the worst
far farther than the farthest
more more than the most
much more than the most
little less than the least

4. Practice Exercise VI
Choose the correct form of the adjective.
1. My jacket is _________________ Bobby’s jacket.
a. warmer than
b. warm than
c. the warm than
d. the warmest
2. Yours is ____________ of the half-dozen estimates that I received.
a. the lowest
b. lower than
c. the most low
d. the lower
3. She had a ________________ Persian rug in the front hallway.
a. real
b. most real
c. really
d. badly
4. Mr. Jones looks pale and shaky this morning; he doesn’t look _______________.
a. good
b. better
c. well
d. gooder
5. Fred, your cough is very _______________ this morning.
a. badly
b. worse
c. bad
d. more bad
6. He was the ______________ person I ever shared an apartment with.
a. messiest
b. most messy
c. messier
d. messy
7. She is ________________ than her sister.
a. attractive
b. more attractive
c. most attractive
d. attractivier

5. 8. Because you missed only one question, you have the _______________ grade.
a. good
b. better
c. best
d. more good
9. Of the triplets he has always been the ______________.
a. taller
b. tall
c. more tall
d. tallest
10. An Oldsmobile is __________________ a Honda.
a. as expensive than
b. the most expensive
c. more expensive than
d. expensivier than
11. My son is as _____________________ yours.
a. restless as
b. more restless than
c. the most restless
d. restless than
12. Michael looks _____________ member of the team.
a. stronger
b. more stronger than
c. the most strong
d. the strongest
13. Is this stamp _______________ that one.
a. valuabler than
b. as valuable as
c. the more valuable
d. more valuabler than
14. Your promotion was _________________ news of the week.
a. the more good
b. the best
c. the gooder
d. the better
15. Today, Tony feels ________________ yesterday.
a. worse than
b. the worst
c. more ill than
d. iller than

6. 16. Is this pot _______________ the skillet?
a. greasier than
b. the more greasy
c. the more greasier
d. the greasiest
17. That was _________________ movie of the year.
a. the popularest
b. the most popular
c. the more popular
d. popularer than
18. Is this test _________________ the other one?
a. the most important
b. importanter than
c. more important than
d. important than
19. Is a tennis ball _______________ a baseball? No, it’s lighter.
a. as heavy as
b. as heavier than
c. the heaviest
d. heavy than
20. Of all the Hawaiian islands, Maui is _________________ beautiful.
a. the more
b. the most
c. many
d. best
21. Jenny is _________________ her sister.
a. as lazy as
b. the laziest
c. more laziest than
d. as lazier as
22. Louise is ________________ girl in the classroom
a. thinner than
b. the thinnest
c. the most thin
d. the thinner
23. Today is ________________ day of the year.
a. the shorter
b. the shortest
c. the most short
d. shorter than

7. 24. The weather in Boston is ______________ the weather in New York.
a. colder than
b. the coldest
c. as cold than
d. more colder than
25. Lesson 5 is ______________ lesson 6.
a. longer as
b. long as
c. longest as
d. longer than
26. This is _____________ pillow we have.
a. the softest
b. the more soft
c. the most soft
d. the softer
27. Sally is _______________ girl known.
a. the more cheerful
b. the cheerfuler
c. the most cheerful
d. cheerfulest
28. Marta’s scissors are ______________ mine.
a. sharper than
b. the sharpest
c. more sharper than
d. the most sharper
29. Mark was ________________ as I am.
a. succesfuler than
b. more successful than
c. more success than
d. as successful
30. The art museum is _________________ building in the city.
a. the older
b. older than
c. the oldest
d. as old than