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Page 1: Comparing with Adjectives Houghton Mifflin Text p.150-151

Comparing with Adjectives

Houghton Mifflin Textp.150-151

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What are adjectives?

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Adjectives can also show how people, places, or things are alike or different.

• Add –er to most adjectives to compare two persons, places, or things.

Mars is a smaller planet than Jupiter.

• Add –est to most adjectives to compare more than two persons, places, or things.

Pluto is the smallest planet of all.

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Which adjective completes the sentence correctly?

Venus has a ___________ year than Jupiter.

shorter

shortest

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Which adjective completes the sentence correctly?

Jupiter is a ______________ planet than Venus.

colder

coldest

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Which adjective completes the sentence correctly?

Mercury is ___________ of all to the sun.

nearer

nearest

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Which adjective completes the sentence correctly?

Uranus is ___________ than Neptune.

warmer

warmest

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Which adjective completes the sentence correctly?

A year on Earth is ____________ than a year on Mars.

shorter

shortest

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HELP! Please edit this list of facts from a website about jupiter. It has 5 errors.

• Jupiter is greater in size than its neighbor Mars.

• It is the greater in size of all the planets.• Earth is nearest to the Sun than Jupiter is.• Jupiter has a longest year than Earth.• It is the brighter of all the planets except

one.• Only Venus appears brightest than

Jupiter.Click here

to see correctionsl

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We can use adjectives that compare to help expand sentences and make them more interesting.

Example:Alaska is a large state.

Of all of the states of the United States of America, Alaska is the largest.

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Can you expand these sentences by adding comparative and superlative adjectives to make them more interesting?

• The lion tamer is tall.

• The man on stilts is tall.

• The white horse is fast.

• The elephant is big.