Adjectives
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Adjectives
• Adjectives give you information about people,animals or things.
• EXAMPLES:
Tall and ShortSlim and Fat
An old bycicle and a new bycicle
Activity: How many adjectives can you translate into Catalan ?
Sad and Happy
Good looking and Ugly
Poor and Rich
Comparatives• Comparative sentences are used to
compare two thingsExemple:
• “Peter is taller than Susan”
FORM:
1. One syllable: add +erTall-taller than
1.One syllable adjectives ending –e ,add –r - Nice- nicer2. One syllable adjectives ending
c+v+c,double the last consonant and add – er
3. Two syllables ending –y: drop the –y and add–ier
-happy-happier -easy-easier4. More than two syllables: more intelligent than
Examples:
• Maria is taller than Peter• Peter is older than Maria
• Teresa is older than Roger• Xevi is younger than Teresa
Superlative• Superlative adjectives are to talk
about the difference between,three or more people,animals or things.
• One syllable adjectives: add-es to the adjective
-Tall-tallest - Short-shortest - Old-oldest
• Spelling rules• One syllable adjectives ending –e ,add –st -Nice-nicest• One syllable adjectives ending
c+v+c,double the last consonant and add - est
- Fat-fattest - Big-biggest - Fit-fittest - Hot-hottest
• Two syllable adjectives ending -y,drop the -y and add –iest
- Easy-easiest - Funny-funniest• Two or more syllable adjectives
write”the most”before the adjectives
- Difficult-the most difficult
• IRREGULAR ADJECTIVES: Comparative
SuperlativeGood Better The bestBad Worse The worstFar Further The
furthest