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CCAA - BRBwww.liviogarcia.comCAR CAR OLD NEW
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CCAA - BRBwww.liviogarcia.com Girl Blonde Tall Thin Hot Beautiful
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CCAA - BRBwww.liviogarcia.com Girl Astonishing
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CCAA - BRBwww.liviogarcia.com Girl Amazing
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CCAA - BRBwww.liviogarcia.com What Is An Adjective? A word that describes a noun or a pronoun. From Latin adjectivum "that is added to (the noun)” There are different types of adjectives in the English language: Numeric: six, one hundred and one Quantitative: more, all, some, half, more than enough Qualitative: color, size, smell etc. Possessive: my, his, their, your Demonstrative: this, that, those, these Interrogative: which, whose, what Indefinite: a, an, any, all, many
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CCAA - BRBwww.liviogarcia.com John is a tall boy
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CCAA - BRBwww.liviogarcia.com Paul is a short boy
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CCAA - BRBwww.liviogarcia.com John is taller than Paul Comparative form
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CCAA - BRBwww.liviogarcia.com Superlative form
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CCAA - BRBwww.liviogarcia.com Mary O´Neil
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CCAA - BRBwww.liviogarcia.com Forming Comparative and Superlative Adjectives One-syllable adjectives oldolderoldest largelargerlargest bigbiggerbiggest Two-syllable adjectives peacefulmore peacefulmost peaceful happyhappierhappiest busybusierbusiest gentlegentlergentlest lowlowerlowest
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CCAA - BRBwww.liviogarcia.com Forming Comparative and Superlative Adjectives Three or more syllables adjectives generousmore generousmost generous Irregular adjectives littlelessleast goodbetterbest Two-syllable adjectives that follow two rules clevercleverercleverest more clevermost clever
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CCAA - BRwww.liviogarcia.com References “Forming Comparative and Superlative Adjectives”. Retrieved March 11 th, 2012, from http://www.eflnet.com/tutorials/adjcompsup.php http://www.eflnet.com/tutorials/adjcompsup.php “Kinds of Adjectives”. Retrieved March 11 th, 2012, from http://www.perfectyourenglish.com/grammar/adjectives-kinds.htm http://www.perfectyourenglish.com/grammar/adjectives-kinds.htm MacFadyen, Heather. “What Is An Adjective?”. Retrieved March 11 th, 2012, from http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/adjectve.html http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/adjectve.html
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