2. Adjectives Adjectives are words that describe or modify another person or thing in the sentence. Degrees of Adjectives They can express degrees of modification: Gladys is a rich woman,but Josie is richer than Gladys, and Sadie is the richest woman in town.
3. The degrees of comparison are known as the positive Gladys is a rich woman,but the comparative frequently adds the suffixes -er although we need -ier when a two-syllable adjective ends in “ y” Happ y -happ i er , otherwise we use more when an adjective has more than one syllable. Josie is richer than Gladys the superlatives frequently adds the suffixes -est although we need -iest when a two-syllable adjective ends in “ y” Happ y -happ i est , otherwise we use most when an adjective has more than one syllable. Sadie is the richest woman in town.
4. most beautiful more beautiful Beautiful loveliest lovelier Lovely richest richer rich Superlative Comparative Positive furthest further far most more much many some least less little worst worse bad best better good Irregular Comparative and Superlative Forms
