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Good morning Year 2!
It's Monday morning SPaG time. Today we are looking at comparatives; words used to compare.
These words are formed by adding two different suffixes (er and est).
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Adjectives describe nouns.
We can add the er suffix to compare:
The chocolate was nicer than any other.
nice nicer tasty tastier
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L.O. To spell correctly
We can also add the suffix est to say something is the best (or worst):
The chocolate was the nicest he had ever
tasted!nice nicer nicest
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sad sadder saddest
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L.O. To spell correctly
It doesn't always work!!
Sometimes we have to put the most or the
least before the adjective, this is usually
with longer adjectives:
It was the most delicious chocolate he
had ever tasted!
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Charlie ran _______ than ever before.
(fast, faster, fastest.)
This is the ________ chocolate bar ever!
(tasty, tastier, tastiest)
Augustus Gloop was _______ than the other children.
(fat, fatter, fattest)
Veruca Salt was the _______ girl in the world.
(rude, ruder, rudest)
Which is the correct word to complete the sentence?
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On the next page is a list of words, first add the er suffix to them then the est suffix to complete the table. The first one has been done for you.
Then choose 3 of the words and put them into a sentence.
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big
sticky
tasty
quick
small
creamyslow
happy
soft
smart
bigger biggest
Remember:
If the word ends in a y, change the y to an i and add the suffix
