TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MACHALA

BUSINESS UNIT ACADEMIC SCIENCE

CAREER OF ECONOMY

Student: Abel Fernando Cox

Teacher: Eduardo Martillo
Subject: English Technical
Date: 15/07/2015
Theme: The Superlatives

What is a Superlative

Adjective?

A superlative adjective
compares three or more
nouns. This takes the
comparison of nouns to
the highest degree.

Use

The superlative is used to say what

thing, person, or idea has the most of a
particular quality within a group or of
its kind.
Superlative adjectives normally come
before any other adjectives.

Mount Snowdon
is 3,559 feet
high.

Snowdon
Ben Nevis is 4,408 is notthe
feet high.
highestm
ountain
in Britain,
Ben Nevis
is.

Rules :Forming the

superlative
Form
Rule
For example
Words of one
Add -st to the
syllable ending in
wide - widest
end of the word.
'e'.
The Amazon River isthe widestriver in the
world.
Words of one
Double the
syllable, with one
consonant and
vowel and one
big - biggest
add -est to the
consonant at the
end of the word.
end.

In 2010 a dog called Giant George was given the

title ofthebiggestdog in the world.

Words of one
syllable, with
more than one Add - est to the
vowel or more
end of the
high - highest
than one
word.
consonant at the
end.
Mount Everest isthe highestmountain in the
word. (But it isn'tthe tallestmountain in the
world.)
Change 'y' to 'i',
Words of two
and add -est to
syllables, ending
happy - happiest
the end of the
in 'y'.
word.
In 2013 Australia was
namedthehappiestcountry in the world.
Words of two
Place 'the most'
beautiful - the
syllables or more,
before the
most beautiful

Don't forget that some adjectives are irregular:'good' becomes 'the best'
'bad' becomes 'the worst'
'far' becomes 'the furthest

For example:
"Jill isthebeststudent in the class."
"Jack istheworststudent in the class."
"In our solar system the planet Pluto isthe
furthestplanet from the Sun."
!Note- Have you noticed that these superlatives are
preceded by 'the'.
For example:
"The Rio de la Plata river, on the southeast coastline of
South America, isthewidestriver in the world."