Aim

Comparative Adjectives
And
Superlative Adjectives
 Aim
LO
• To understand and use comparative adjectives.
• To understand and use superlative adjectives.
 What Is a Comparative Adjective?
A comparative adjective is used to compare one person, action, thing or state to
another. It adds the suffix -er to the original adjective.

e.g. brighter

‘bright’ is the original adjective. ‘-er’ is the suffix.

It is comparing two things only.

E.g. Tường’s torch is brighter than Đăng’s torch.

 What Is a Comparative Adjective?
The suffix -er is added to the end of the original adjective to show that it is being
compared to one other person, action, thing or state.

Sometimes, the root adjective spelling does not change.

e.g. warm
The weather is warmer today than yesterday.

Other times, the root adjective spelling changes, as in these examples:

e.g. happy
The boy is happier than the girl.

e.g. big
My car is bigger than yours.
What Is a Comparative Adjective?

• Add the suffix ‘-er’ to these adjectives and then put them in a sentence.

E.g. small
The mouse was smaller than the elephant.

hot
hotter longer
long wet
wetter

shiny
shinier light
lighter brighter
bright

(Click to reveal the answer.)

 What Is a Superlative Adjective?
• A superlative adjective is used to compare one person, action, thing or state to
all others in the same group.

• It adds the suffix - est to the original adjective.

E.g. quietest

‘quiet’ is the original adjective. ‘-est’ is the suffix.

It is comparing more than two things only.

E.g. Linh is the quietest student in the class.

 What Is a Superlative Adjective?
The suffix -est is added to the end of the original adjective to show that it is being
compared to two or more people, actions, things or states.

Sometimes, the root adjective spelling does not change.

e.g. quick
The girl is the quickest of them all.

Other times, the root adjective spelling changes, as in these examples:

e.g. juicy
The orange is the juiciest of the fruits.

e.g. hot
Leeds was the hottest city on Wednesday.
What Is a Superlative Adjective?

Add ‘-est’ to these adjectives, then put them in a sentence.

e.g. cold
It was the coldest day in January so far.

thinnest
thin shortest
short driest
dry

funny
funniest dark
darkest dullest
dull

(Click to reveal the answer.)

 Spelling Rules
Most words can simply have the suffix –er and –est added to the end of them
without having to make any changes to the root adjective.
However, there are some words that you need to watch out for!

Words that end in a ‘y’ Double consonants Words that end in an ‘e’
Two or more syllable Words that end in one Words that end in an ‘e’
words that end in ‘y: vowel and then one need to have the ‘e’
Change the ‘y’ into an ‘i’ consonant need to have removed before the suffix is
before adding the suffix. the last consonant ended.
doubled.
e.g. e.g.
e.g.
heavy  heavier large  larger
flat  flatter
tiny  tiniest fine  finest
slim  slimmest
 Exceptions!

Comparatives Superlatives

Good
Bad
Far
Happy gaming from the Twinkl Board Games
team!
 Instructions

1. Assign a colour to each team – blue or yellow.

2. Students are to select a circle on the bottom row of the grid and work their
way upwards. If they can tell you the correct comparative and superlative
adjective for that word, click on the circle to remove the text and reveal the
answer. Change the colour of that word to the corresponding team colour.

3. The first team to get four tokens in a row, column or diagonally wins!

4. To restart the game, exit the PowerPoint and open it again.

 boring hard lazy nice exciting short great
more boring harder nicer more exciting shorter greater
lazier
the most boring the hardest the nicest the most exciting the shortest the greatest
the laziest

cheap slow fast far noisy interesting fantastic

further noisier more interesting
cheaper slower the most interesting the most fantastic
faster The furthest the noisiest
the cheapest the slowest the fastest

happy cute angry small bright cool quiet

happier angrier small brighter
cuter cooler quieter
the happiest The angriest the smallest the brightest
the cutest the coolest the quietest

easy smart sad funny energetic busy dark

funnier more energetic
easier smarter sadder busier darker
the funniest The most energetic
the easiest the smartest the saddest the busiest the darkest

bad high big pretty lovely good important

worse higher prettier lovelier more important
bigger better the most important
the worst the highest the prettiest the loveliest
the biggest the best

difficult dangerous sharp beautiful safe hot loud

more difficult more dangerous more beautiful safer hotter louder
sharper
The most difficult the most dangerous the most beautiful the safest the hottest the loudest
the sharpest