Comparative and Superlative Adjectives
What is the comparative adjective for warm?
warmer
What is a pronoun?
A word that replaces a noun.
What is a possessive adjective?
An adjective that describes a noun.
Noun phrases, Adverbial phrases, Adjectival Phrases
What is a phrase?
A group of words which does not express a complete idea. A phrase does not have both a subject and a verb.
What is the superlative adjective for interesting?
most interesting
What are the two types of personal pronouns we learned about in class?
subject pronouns and object pronouns
What is a possessive pronoun?
A pronoun that takes the place of a noun and a possessive adjective.
What is a noun phrase?
A noun phrase is a group of words which functions as a noun.
What is a clause?
A group of words which expresses a complete idea. A clause has both a subject and a verb.
What is a comparative adjective?
An adjective used to compare two objects. Add -er or use more
What is a subject pronoun?
A pronoun that takes the place of the subject in a sentence.
Give an example of a possessive adjective and use it in a sentence.
my, our, your, his, her, its, their
That is my car.
What is an adjectival phrase?
An adjectival phrase is a group of words that describes a noun.
Are the words in brackets phrases or clauses?
Advertisements are supposed to (tell the truth).
phrase
What is a superlative adjective?
What is an object pronoun?
A pronoun that takes the place of an object in a sentence.
Give an example of a possessive pronoun and use it in a sentence.
mine, ours, yours, his, hers, its, theirs
That is mine.
What is an Adverbial phrase?
An adverbial phrase is a phrase that describes a verb, an adjective or another adverb and it can tell us how, where or when.
Are the words in brackets phrases or clauses?
The (writers are very clever).
Clause
When do we use fewer and when do we use less?
We use fewer to compare things that can be counted. We use use less to compare things that cannot be counted.
Replace the words in brackets with the correct pronoun.
(The Honourable Mrs. Moseby) tries to help (the people in her constituency.)
(She) tries to help (them).
Replace the words in brackets with the correct possessive adjective or pronoun.
Have you read (David Border’s) article about the new Representative?
Have you read his article about the new Representative?
Identify a phrase in the following sentence and state what type of phrase it is.
The poster on the door was large and colorful.
large and colorful - adjectival phrase
Complete this sentence with a clause of your own.
When it stopped raining --------------
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