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Do Now- Complete the following in your English Journal

Do Now- Complete the following in your English Journal. _________ is a tall building. _________ is a taller building. _________ is the tallest building. Comparatives & Superlatives. EQ: How do I write the comparative and superlative form of an adjective?. What’s your function?.

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Do Now- Complete the following in your English Journal

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  1. Do Now- Complete the following in your English Journal _________ is a tall building. _________ is a taller building. _________ is the tallest building

  2. Comparatives & Superlatives

  3. EQ: How do I write the comparative and superlative form of an adjective?

  4. What’s your function? • A comparative form of an adjective compares two things. • Add –er to most adjectives to compare two things • nicer, cooler, meaner • Use more with long adjectives - complicated, sophisticated

  5. What’s your function? • Use the superlative form to compare three or more things. • Add –est to most adjectives to compare three or more things • nicest, coolest, meanest • Use most with long adjectives skillful, colorful, playful

  6. Lets work together on a couple sentences!!! • The Nile River is (long, longer, longest) than the Mississippi. • Mount Everest is the (high, higher, highest) mountain in the world)

  7. Transparency 4-13

  8. Ticket Out the Door • Tell me how many things a comparative adjective compares. • Tell me how many things the superlative form of an adjective compares. • Write 3 sentences using a comparative adjective. • Write 3 sentences using a superlative adjective.

  9. Do Now- Complete the chart in your English Journal

  10. Essential Question How do I write the comparative and superlative form of good and bad?

  11. Rules for Irregular Superlative and Comparative Adjectives • Some adjectives have completely different comparative and superlative forms. • The adjectives good and bad have irregular comparative and superlative forms. • Use better to compare two things and best to compare three or more. • Use worse to compare two things and worst to compare three or more.

  12. Comparing with more and most • Use more to form the comparative of most adjectives with two or more syllables. • Use most to form the superlative of most adjectives with two or more syllables.

  13. Transparency 4-14 With a partner complete 4-14

  14. Homework • Complete the following worksheets for homework. • Reteaching Workbook page #46 • Workbook Plus page #77

  15. Ticket Out the Door Write 6 sentences using the following words: worse, worst, better, best, more and most. DO NOT Copy Sentences from your worksheets!!!!!

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