Record Breakers

UNIT 2
Extreme Adjectives
Regular Extreme
Angry Furious
Bad Awful, terrible, horrible
Big Huge, giant
Cold Freezing
Funny Hilarious
Good Wonderful, fantastic, excellent
Hungry Starving
Pretty Gorgeous
Small Tiny
Degree of Adjectives
Positive Comparative Superlative
Strong Stronger than The strongest
Thick Thicker than The thickest
Dry Drier than The driest
Long Longer than The longest
Cheap Cheaper than The cheapest
Pretty Prettier than The prettiest
Poor Poorer than The poorest
Heavy Heavier than The heaviest
Adjectives with more than two syllables

Adjectives with more than two syllables can only make their comparative
by using 'more' and their superlative by using 'most’.
• beautiful → more beautiful / most beautiful
• intelligent → more intelligent / most intelligent
• interesting → more interesting / most interesting
• expensive → more expensive / most expensive
There are a few adjectives that we have to use 'more' or 'most' with, even
though they only have one syllable. We CAN'T add 'er' or 'est’.

• fun → more fun / the most fun (NOT funner / funnest)

• real → more real / the most real (NOT realer / realest)
• right → more right / the most right (NOT righter / rightest)
• wrong → more wrong / the most wrong (NOT wronger / wrongest)
Irregular adjectives

There are also some irregular adjectives. We just need to learn these
forms.
• Good/well → better → best
• bad → worse → worst
• far → further → furthest
• little → less → least
• Many/much → more → most
Adverbs of manner

An adverb of manner describes how you do an action. For example,

• They dress elegantly.
• Some elderly people drive slowly.
To make adverbs of manner, we usually add -ly to the adjective. For
example,
• quick – quickly
• careful – carefully
• gentle – gently
When an adjective ends in -y we change the -y to -i then add -ly. For
example,
• happy – happily
• greedy – greedily
• easy – easily
However, there are also some irregular adverbs:
• good – well
• hard – hard
• fast – fast
• late – late
• straight – straight
• high – high
What are Adverbs of Frequency?

An adverb of frequency describes how often an action happens. There

are six main adverbs of frequency that we use in English: always,
usually (or normally), often, sometimes, rarely, and never.
 Adverbs of Frequency with Modal Verbs and Auxiliary Verbs

If there is a modal verb in the sentence, we put the adverb of frequency after it and before the
main verb. For example:
• You must always try your best.
• We can usually find a seat on our train.
• They should never be rude to customers. 

The same rule applies for an auxiliary verb – the adverb of frequency goes between the
auxiliary verb and the main verb. For example:
• I have never visited Turkey.
• He’s always taking things from my desk. It’s really annoying.
• You had rarely arrived late at work until yesterday.