Comparing Adverbs and Adjectives

Which correctly describes a comparison in the positive degree?

• When an adjective or adverb ends in est

• When a writer or character states something positive.

• When no comparison is made and is just a fact.

• When two things are being compared positively

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CCSS.L.3.1G

The word MORE is used when forming the ________ degree in words that end with ly. It only makes a comparison between two things.

• Superlative degree

• Positive degree

• Beyondlative degree

• comparative degree

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CCSS.L.3.1G

What is an Adverb?

• A word that changes the ownership of a possessive pronoun

• A word that describes a verb

• A word that modifies a verb or an adjective, ends with ly, (describes adverbs and verbs)

• A word that shows a verb as an adjective

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CCSS.L.3.1A

What is an adjective?

• An action word: shows what the subject is doing

• A word that describes something; they describe nouns or pronouns

• A word that sounds like how it’s spelled: swoosh, blam.

• Jack Greguilo is gud man

The _______ degree compares 3 or more things.

• Comparative

• Positive degree

• Poistive degree

• Superlative

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CCSS.L.3.1G

If you were to change the adjective eager from the positive degree to the comparative degree what word would you use in front of it?

• Most eager

• More eager

• Jack was most eager than anyone else in Canada, Eh?

• Four eager

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CCSS.L.3.1G

What example/s properly uses an adjective in the comparative degree?

• Jack was more hungry than anyone else in the class.

• Jack was more funny than anyone else in the class

• Jack was more stinky than anyone in the school

• Joe Schmoe was more tired than anyone in the car dealership

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CCSS.L.3.1G

What is an example of the positive degree?

• This cereal is yummy

• The street that I live on is very long

• Birds are better animals than dogs. ‘

• Jack Greguilo is the scariest cereal eater of all time

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CCSS.L.3.1G

What word group of words sometimes end in -ly ?

• Adverbs

• adjectives

• Proadjectives

• El Verbo ser

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CCSS.L.3.1A

True of false? Are proadjectives a real thing?

(Not on the test)

• True

• False

• What is that??????

• I looked it up :(

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CCSS.L.1.1F

CCSS.L.2.1E