How to use Superlative Adjectives Best Greatest Most Basic English Grammar

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hi everybody my name is Alisha in this

episode I’m going to talk about

superlatives superlatives are words that

we use to express the extreme of

something or the highest degree of

something so I’m going to talk about

irregular superlatives and I’m going to

talk about how to make the regular

superlative forms four different words

so let’s get started okay so as I just

said a superlative is a word that

expresses the extreme of something or

the highest degree of something so a few

common examples of this are for example

the words best and worst so best is the

superlative the most extreme form of the

adjective good so if we say something is

good but we want to express that it is

like the top of something we can use the

word best to describe that for example

your best friend is the friend that you

have the closest relationship with

they’re a good friend but your top

friend is your best friend the opposite

though is worst so worst is the

superlative form of bad so again

something that is bad the thing that

exhibits the the highest degree of bad

qualities we use the word worst to

describe so I am my worst nightmare for

example or the worst day for example we

also see a different pattern where we

use the word most before an adjective so

here I have most fun fun is an irregular

adjectives so are good and bad but we

see here with the word fun that most can

be placed before an adjective to create

the superlative form so in this case

most fun describes an activity or

something that you feel is very very fun

and has like the highest level of fun so

that was the most fun day I’ve ever had

or that was the most fun barbeque for

example I’ve ever had or that barbecue

was the most fun I’ve ever had I don’t

know there are different ways to say

these things but we’re going to look at

how to make the regular

their forms as well so as I said good

bad and fun are examples of irregular

adjectives so the superlative forms here

don’t necessarily follow the rules I’m

going to explain but these are very

common so please keep them in mind okay

before we continue on in this lesson I’m

going to talk about syllables syllables

if you don’t remember syllables are like

the beat of a word so for example in a

word like beautiful there are three

beats in the word beyou two full three

syllables so please keep in mind the

number of beats in a word when you’re

trying to decide how to make the

superlative form of a word so I want to

begin with one syllable adjectives these

are very short adjectives so I have a

big small fat tall and short very simple

adjectives to make the superlative form

with a one syllable adjectives we add

est to the end here so for example big

becomes biggest small becomes smallest

fat becomes fattest tall becomes tallest

and short becomes shortest so we simply

add est to the end of the word to make

the superlative form for a one syllable

adjectives but you might notice here

some of these especially biggest and

fattest the spelling changes a little

bit when we make the superlative form so

kind of a rule for you to remember when

you’re spelling this doesn’t really

affect pronunciation but if you’re

writing if the word ends in a single

consonant plus a vowel plus a single

consonant double the last consonant when

you’re writing so here we see b.i.g

single consonant vowel single consonant

so we need to double the last consonant

here in this case it’s a G big becomes

biggest with two Gs

the same thing is in fat with the change

to fattest so single consonant vowel

single consonant we therefore need to

double the consonants here in the

spelling of fattest so please keep this

in mind for writing the pronunciation

stays the same fattest

biggest there’s no like double consonant

sound but please keep this in mind for

your emails or for your text messages

for example okay let’s continue on to

two syllable adjectives two syllable

adjectives are a little bit tricky

because maybe there are some that don’t

always follow the same rule let’s look

at a few examples I have pretty little

handsome nervous and worried so for two

syllable adjectives will either add est

as we did over here with one syllable

adjectives or we might use most before

the adjective so this is something that

will come with practice and with for

example reading and doing listening to

hear which one’s native speakers most

commonly used so for example with the

word handsome I have handsomest and most

handsome you might hear both in some

cases it could depend on the region that

you’re in the kind of English that is

spoken there so just listen for what’s

around you and if you try to use one of

these if you’d like to use one of these

and you’re not sure which form to use

try most using most and if it doesn’t

work out then you’ll know to use the est

form instead but let’s take a look there

a couple of other points I want to

mention here first when you are using an

adjective that ends in Y in this case I

have pretty the spelling will change

with this as well so the Y at the end of

the adjective will be removed will drop

the the Y at the end and we’ll add iest

so pretty the pronunciation doesn’t

change but the spelling does pretty it

becomes prettiest here so the Y changes

to an I in spelling here with the

adjective little there’s no change we

just add est as I said with handsome

here I’ve added est or I’ve added most

before the adjective to in the last two

I have nervous and worried so for these

adjectives it’s better to use most most

the most nervous person or the most

worried person in the room for example

it sounds a little strange to say

nervous

it’s a bit difficult to pronounce so go

with most in these cases alright

so please keep this in mind try using

most before the adjective if you’re ever

not sure okay let’s now go to three

syllable adjectives so near the

beginning of this lesson I gave the

example of beautiful beautiful three

syllables

each of these will follow this same rule

three syllable adjectives we need to use

most in front of the adjective so

exciting becomes most exciting beautiful

becomes most beautiful horrible most

horrible nutritious most nutritious and

expensive most expensiv so please just

add most before the adjective and then

that will make the superlative form for

these long adjectives so these are the

basic rules for how to make the

superlative form one thing to be careful

of though I have heard some people use

the superlative form correctly however

they use most along with it so for

example most biggest or most smallest

for example so don’t combine them if you

use the est you do not need to use most

so most biggest is incorrect please use

only biggest so there’s only one change

that needs to happen to the adjective

please be careful all right if you have

any questions please let us know in the

comment section for this video I hope it

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out a superlative form or if you have a

question about how to make the

superlative form of an adjective please

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