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  in today's grammar lesson, we're going to be talking about

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  comparatives and superlatives.

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  You will notice that these are things that are used

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  all the time in your writing, and we are just

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  categorizing them as either comparative or superlative, and we will

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  go over the rules that are required to make sure

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  that we're spelling them properly.

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  So we're going to start off this video by going

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  over the e book explanation.

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  An adjective is a part of speech that modifies a

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  noun or pronoun, and an adverb modifies a verb and

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  adjective or another.

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  Adverb. Adjectives and adverbs are modifiers that can be used

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  to compare two or more items or actions.

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  Comparative adjectives and adverbs are used to compare two items

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  or actions.

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  For example, she is shorter and runs faster than her

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  sister, so the speed at which she runs is being

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  compared to the speed at which her sister runs.

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  That's why we use the comparative faster.

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  Superlative adjectives and adverbs are used to compare three or

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  more items or actions.

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  For example, Cal is the best runner on the team

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  and can jump the highest.

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  So comparative adjectives and adverbs are comparing two items or

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  two actions, whereas superlative adjectives and adverbs are comparing three

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  or more.

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  That's why the superlative best is used here and highest,

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  it means that there is more than two things being

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  compared for an adjective that is only one or two

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  syllables. You would usually add the Suffolk's E R.

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  To form the comparative and the Suffolk's E S.

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  T. To form the superlative, as seen in those two

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  examples above, for an adjective that is a longer word

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  used the words mawr, or most before the adjective to

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  form the comparative and superlative for most adverbs use more

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  and most incorrect example.

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  The most fastest runner won the race.

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  So here you have created a superlative by making by

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  adding S T to the too fast, so it should

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  be the fastest runner won the race.

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  You cannot do both.

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  You cannot put most in front of something that has

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  been changed into a superlative, and because it's a short

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  word, you don't need to put most before.

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  It would sound wrong if you said the most fast

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  runner. It's a short word so you can create the

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  superlative by just adding e S t.

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  The fastest runner run the way the race.

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  Sorry. So this is the explanation that we have in

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  our e book and in our textbook, let's move on

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  to just really understanding and that digesting this information as

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  we said, comparative adjectives compare one person working with another.

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  For example, shoes are cheaper than T shirts that E.

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  R is often seen when you're making a comparative adjective.

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  If you have a one syllable adjectives, you just add

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  E. R.

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  So if it ends, for example, if you have cheap,

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  that's a one syllable adjectives.

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  All you have to do is add e R.

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  If you're one syllable adjectives ends and why I like

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  the word dry.

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  You take down that y and you add e R.

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  It becomes drier if it is ending with a constant,

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  for example, big.

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  What you would do is at another g e are

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  bigger and words like bigger.

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  You've kind of already memorized that it's spelled that way.

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  Okay, two syllable adjectives.

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  You have to add e.

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  R. In these adjectives, and in some cases, ADM or

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  Beforehand. So, for example, the word pretty that's two syllables,

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  and it does end in Y.

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  So we take down that y and we add i

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  e r If the word already ends with E r

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  like clever, you just add e r again cleverer.

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  There are some exceptions with more for example, you cannot

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  say peaceful.

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  Er, it would be more peaceful.

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  You cannot say pleasanter.

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  It's more pleasant.

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  You cannot say careful.

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  Er it is more careful and you cannot say thoughtful.

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  Er, it is more thoughtful.

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  So so far, the rule is you add e r.

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  If it ends with why you take down that y

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  and at AII are there are some words like big

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  or you have to add another one of those continents

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  you would at G E.

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  R. And these are some exceptions where you cannot addy

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  are it sounds funky as you notice the way I

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  was reading it.

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  So what you do instead is you put more in

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  front of it.

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  Alright, If you have three or more syllables, you do

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  have to add more.

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  So these are not exceptions.

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  Thes air just three or more syllables, so you do

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  have to put more in front of it popular.

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  That's three syllables, so you can't say popular.

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  It would be too many syllables.

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  You just put more in front of it.

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  And that creates the comparative more popular, more generous, more

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  mysterious, more interesting.

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  And there are a list more there, all right, moving

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  on to superlatives.

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  Superlatives, Adjectives compare more than two things.

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  So usually three things or people or items.

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  For example, Pop Lucio is the best book.

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  So you're comparing this book with all the books in

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  the world.

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  If you're saying it's the best you cannot say is

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  the better book.

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  That would be comparing between two things that would be

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  a comparative, Let's see thes air, some irregular comparatives and

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  superlatives that I would suggest you probably memorize.

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  You may already be familiar with them, and this conservative

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  just their refresher.

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  If you are putting good the object of good in

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  comparative form, it becomes better.

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  This book is better than that book.

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  If you're putting it in superlative form, it turns into

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  best. This book is the best, as we just saw.

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  In that example, the word bad is also irregular.

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  To put bad and comparative form, you would say worse.

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  This piece of chocolate is worse than that piece of

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  chocolate in superlative form comparing it Thio more than two

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  things you would also use worst.

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  Okay, so bad becomes worse in comparative form and becomes

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  worst with a T and superlative form.

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  Further is our last irregular here.

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  To put it in comparative form, it becomes farther or

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  further depending on the sentence and to put in superlative

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  form its farthest or furthest.

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  All right, this is our lesson today.

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  During the class, we will go over more practice activities.

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  Please check out the tutorials and the sample exam questions

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  or self assessment.

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  On this, you see page to better your understanding of

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  today's grammar concept.