Grammar rhymes - Joanna Zaranska 1997

Adjectives

Remember!

От односложных и некоторых двусложных прилагательных мы образуем сравнительную степень, добавляя -еr, а превосходную — добавляя - est:

long — longer — longest, short — shorter — shortest.

Если прилагательное оканчивается на -е, то в сравнительной степени мы до­бавляем - r, а в превосходной - st, напр.:

nice — nicer — nicest, wide — wider — widest

Если прилагательное оканчивается на согласный, стоящий после гласного, то в сравнительной и превосходной степени согласный удваивается, напр.:

hot — hotter — hottest, fat — fatter - fattest.

Если прилагательное оканчивается на - у после согласного, то в сравнитель­ной и превосходной степени - у заменяется на - i и добавляются — er, - est:

funny — funnier — funniest, busy — busier — busiest.

Remember!

Если в прилагательном более одного слога или оно оканчивается на - ful, -ed, или - ing, то перед ним в сравнительной и превосходной степени ста­вится more и the most, напр.:

beautiful — more beautiful — the most beautiful.

A story

It was the first day of Ron’s holidays. The weather was BEAUTIFUL. It was HOT and SUNNY. In fact, it was THE MOST BEAUTIFUL. THE HOTTEST and THE SUNNIEST day you could ever dream of. Ron woke up and looked at his watch. It was 9 o'clock. “Quite late," he thought. But then he remembered - “There’s no more school. I don't have to hurry. Why shouldn’t I take a NICE morning nap?” And he fell asleep again in no time at all. But falling asleep was THE WORST thing he could do. You will never guess what happened to Ron during the next few minutes. He had THE MOST HORRIBLE, THE MOST AWFUL, THE MOST FRIGHT­ENING dream he ever had before. He was sitting in the classroom with another twenty NOISY pupils waiting for his biology teacher to come when suddenly he heard a splash in the aquarium. One of the fish seemed to look at Ron from behind the glass wall of the aquarium. There was something strange about that fish. THE LONGER Ron looked at it. THE BIGGER it seemed to be. After a SHORT lime there was nothing in the aquarium but the fish, and even then it didn’t stop growing. It was now coming out of the aquarium with its jaws open. Ron was so SCARED he could not move. The HORRIBLE fish was now nearly as BIG as a whale and ready to eat Ron any minute. And it did. Ron was now inside the whale. He remem­bered the story of Pinocchio. “How UNLUCKY,” he thought. “To spend one’s hol­idays in a way like this.” All of a sudden he heard someone calling his name from a distance. Was it his mother’s voice? How could he tell her where he was? Her voice became LOUDER and LOUDER. There she was standing just next to him, but surely she couldn’t see him. “Ron, for goodness sake,” she said, “Why are you sleeping with your head under the pillow? It’s noon and Andy is here to take you to the swimming pool!"

*с — consonant/согласный

**v — vowel/гласный

Task 1

Заполни пропуски при помощи следующих прилагательных: small, shallow, hot, short, thin, wet, pretty, messy, busy, low, white, easy, tall, sour, bad, wrong, sad, witty, light, old.

Task 2

Впиши прилагательные в соответствующие колонки.

Double a letter change у into i. Add more to a word. Which is which? Have a try! interesting, tired, thin, lazy, funny, fat, wonderfill, frightening, pretty, slim, clever, slow, deep, narrow, long, busy, boring, easy, difficult, wonderful, hard.

Task 3

Подпиши картинки пo образцу.

Task 4

Заполни пропуски следующими словами: long, bad, funny, pretty, sad, friendly, strong.