Practice Makes Perfect: Exploring Grammar - Muschla Gary Robert 2010

Radio Signals
Special adjectives and comparing
Adjectives

With some adjectives of two or more syllables, use more or most when comparing nouns or pronouns.

✵ Use more to compare two things and most to compare three.

Sara is a helpful person.

Nan is more helpful than Sara.

Justine is the most helpful person I know.

✵ Do not use more or most with the -er or -est form of an adjective.

This tree is more taller than that tree. (incorrect)

This tree is taller than that tree. (correct)

✵ The words good and bad are adjectives. They have special forms.

John is a good soccer player.

Martin is a better soccer player than John.

Tom is the best player on the soccer team.

5.5 Radio Signals

In 1899, Guglielmo Marconi sent the first international radio signals. What country did he send the signals from? And what country did he send the signals to?

To answer the question, find the correct adjective form. Choose the correct form from the words following the numbered adjective. Only one of the choices for each adjective will be correct. Write the letter of the correct form in the space above the adjective’s number at the bottom of the page. You will need to divide the letters into words.