RULE
What is a Comparative adjective?
It is an adjective that either LIFTS UP or SETS DOWN.
Is TENER a Positive, Comparative, or Superlative adjective?
What does DIFFICILIS mean?
difficult
What is a vowel?
A vowel is a letter than can stand by itself in speech, such as A, E, I, O, U and Y.
What part of speech are facio, dico and volo?
verbs
When an adjective ends with -I, we add ________ to make it comparative.
When an adjectives ends with the syllable -ER, we make the superlative with __________ added.
-RIMUS
-LIMUS
vowel
Adjectives which come from the verbs facio, dico and volo make the comparative by adding ______________.
-ENTIOR
When an adjectives ends with -I, we add ____ and _________ to make it Superlative.
-S and -SIMUS
What does TENER, TENERRIMUS mean in English?
soft, softest (most soft)
What does HUMILIS mean in English?
Adjectives, which before the syllable -_____ have a vowel, rarely produce comparatives and superlatives
Adjectives which come from the verbs facio, dico and volo make the superlative by adding ______________.
-ENTISSIMUS
Pronounce the following correctly.
JUSTI, JUSTIOR, JUSTISSIMUS
JUH-STEE
JUH-STEE-OR
JUH-STEE-SEE-MOOS
irregular adjective
Put the following into their Superlative forms.
FACILIS, DIFFICILIS, GRACILIS
(Students may use a small white board to write it)
FACILLIMUS, DIFFICILLIMUS, GRACILLIMUS
What does IDONEUS mean in English?
sufficient
Put the following into their Comparative and Superlative forms.
MAGNIFICUS
(Students may use a small white board to write it)
Comp - MAGNIFICENTIOR
Super - MAGNIFICENTISSIMUS
This rule is used for regular, or irregular adjectives?
Pronounce the following correctly.
PROSPER, PROSPERRIMUS
PRAW-SPARE-REE-MOOS
smooth pronunciation
What does NOXIUS and ARDUUS mean in English?
"harmful" and "steep"
MAGNIFICUS, MAGNIFICENTIOR, MAGNIFICENTISSIMUS