Superlatives
the superlative is the form of an adverb or adjective that expresses a degree of the adverb or adjective being used that is greater than any other possible degree of the given descriptor. English superlatives are typically formed with the suffix -est (e.g. healthiest, weakest) or the word most (most recent, most interesting).
- (a noun) an exaggerated mode of expression (usually of praise): "the critics lavished superlatives on it";
- (an adjective) the greatest: the highest in quality;
- the superlative form of an adjective: "best" is the superlative form of "good", "most" when used together with an adjective or adverb.
Vito Santino Barragán
ResponderEliminarTeacher, I was reading about the superlatives but i have some questions, one of them is that I don't know when use the sufix -est or the most, I know that the sufix is used when the Word is small and the most is when the Word is long, but how long or how small has to be the Word. Other question is that at the beginig it said that the superlatives are used with adverbs and adjetives, but at the end it sayd that it cuould be used with nouns too, so I want to confirm that.
I apeciate this help, it make me understand things that I forget in the clas room, but I prefer didactics helps, thank you teacher.
ok Vito remind that a short adjective is the one with one or two syllables in the sound and the long adjective is the one with more than three syllables in the sound, in this momento you don´t have to pay attention to adverbs or nouns just adjectives. ok if you have more questions just let me know you got 0.5 extra in your present perfect story
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