Course 10, Unit 2, Attach 2
Course 10, Unit 2, Attach 2
Course 10, Unit 2, Attach 2
Superlative
Adverb
the fastest
She runs of all the players on the team.
the most slowly
2. Use a superlative adverb to compare Of all my friends, Alicia calls the most frequently.
the action of three or more people or My red shoes fit the most comfortably of all my shoes.
things.
3. Add -est to the end of most one- Adjective: I bought the longest couch in the store.
syllable adjectives or adverbs to Adverb: Steve works hardest of all the students.
form the superlative.* Use the before
superlative adjectives. It is not as
common before adverbs.
4. Use the most before most adjectives Maria is the most careful climber of the group.
that have two or more syllables and The Grand Canyon is the most amazing sight I’ve ever seen.
adverbs ending in -ly. Of all the girls, Brenda sings the most beautifully.
5. For some two-syllable adjectives and stupid the stupidest/the most stupid
adverbs, either -est or the most can cruel the cruelest/the most cruel
be used to form the superlative.
6. Some superlatives are irregular. good/well the best bad/badly the worst
*See page A3 for more information on spelling superlative adjectives and adverbs.
4 Complete the sentences with the superlative form of the adjective or adverb in parentheses.
1. The biggest (big) piles of trash on Mount Everest are on the lower areas.
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A Listen and complete each question with the superlative form of the adjective or adverb you
hear.
6. What is to watch?
B Work with a partner. Take turns asking and answering the questions from exercise A.
1. The opposite of the most is the least. This is the least expensive phone in the store. All
the other phones cost a lot more.
She drives the least carefully of all my friends. All
my other friends drive much more carefully.
2. A prepositional phrase with in or of is often The Nile is the longest river in the world.
used to complete a superlative. This hat is the prettiest of the three.
4. One of the often comes before a superlative China is one of the biggest countries in the
adjective. The superlative adjective is followed world.
by a plural noun.
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The Greendex is a survey of 1000 consumers in several countries. It asks consumers how
they spend their money. Each consumer receives a score. High scores indicate “green,” or
environmentally friendly, attitudes. Low scores indicate environmentally unfriendly attitudes.
Greendex: Rankings
Overall Housing Transportation Food Goods
Transportation
Food
Goods
B In your notebook, write four or five sentences based on the housing data from the Greendex
chart in exercise A on page 227. Use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs.
Use the sentences from exercise A to help you.
Charts 2 EDIT. Read the article about the results of the Greendex survey. Find and correct eight more
8.1–8.7
errors with comparatives and superlatives.
consumers in the world. They scored lower in transportation than the Chinese
were, but they scored the highest than the Chinese in three other categories.
goods. For them, the low score of all was in the housing category.
• Germans scored highly in the transportation category than they did in the food
category. However, they were least concerned about housing than goods.
• The Japanese were one of the least concerned nationality overall. They had one
• Americans had the lowest overall score of all the nationalities in the survey. Food
was the only category in which Americans did not score lower then the other
nationalities.