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 THREE
DEGREES
OF
COMPARISO
Reyes, Dalia D.

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TAKE A LOOK! Biggest apple.

Bigger apple.

Big apple.

What can you see?

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Hot Hotter Hottest

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Look at the sets of pictures. Read the sentence under each
picture.

Plant 1 is small. Plant 2 is smaller.

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The flute is long.
This flute is longer than the first.

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Lisa’s plate is big. Mia’s plate is bigger than
Lisa’s.

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 What if a certain Plant 3 exist?

Plant 1 is small. Plant 2 is smaller. Plant 3 is

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 What if a certain Plant 3 exist?

Plant 1 is small. Plant 2 is smaller. Plant 3 is smallest.

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The flute is long. This flute is longer than the first.

This flute is among the three.

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The flute is long. This flute is longer than the first.

This flute is the longest among the three.

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Lisa’s plate is big.
Mia’s plate is bigger than Lisa’s.

Nala’s plate is the among the three.

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Lisa’s plate is big.
Mia’s plate is bigger than Lisa’s.

Nala’s plate is the biggest among the three.

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POSITIVE COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIVE
DEGREE DEGREE DEGREE
Small Smaller Smallest

Long Longer Longest

Big Bigger Biggest

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 +er

Small Smaller Smallest

Long Longer Longest

Big Bigger Biggest

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 +est

Small Smaller Smallest

Long Longer Longest

Big Bigger Biggest

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How about those adjectives that
has two or more syllables?

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Two or more syllable adjectives:
POSITVE DEGREE COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIVE
DEGREE DEGREE
beautiful
intelligent
industrious
handsome
careful

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 Two or more syllable adjectives:

+ more + most
beautiful
intelligent
industrious
handsome
careful

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 Two or more syllable adjectives:

+ more + most
beautiful more beautiful most beautiful
intelligent more intelligent most intelligent
industrious more industrious most industrious
handsome more handsome most handsome
careful more careful most careful

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Adjective
An adjective has three (3) degrees of comparison
namely:

1. positive degree
2. comparative degree
3. superlative degree

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 ACTIVITY:

Work with your seatmate. Give one example of syllable

adjective showing different degrees of comparison and one
example of two or more syllable adjective showing different
degrees of comparison?

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ACTIVITY

Answer the activity on page 241.

• Exercise 2
• Do and Learn

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Key:
1. largest-superlative
2. famous-positive
3. many-positive
4. small-positive
5. farther-comparative

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POSITIVE COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIVE

cold colder coldest

sharp sharper sharpest

clear clearer clearest

funny funnier funniest

tasty tastier tastiest

cute cuter cutest

tall taller tallest

wide wider widest

dark darker darkest

large larger largest

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HOMEWORK

Give 1 adjective showing different degrees of comparison

and one example of two or more syllable adjective showing
different degrees of comparison and use it in a sentence.

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