Comparative and superlative adjectives Our latest publication includes an excellent set of worksheets on comparative and superlative adjectives. Comparative adjectives compare two things whilst superlative adjectives compare more than two things. Usually this is just a matter of putting ‘er’ or ‘est’ at the end of the adjective e.g. strong, stronger, strongest. Of course the English language is never that simple and we have plenty of exceptions, such as little, less, least and bad, worse, worst. I have seen many examples of children using words such as badder or baddest, which whilst being incorrect, it can be said that the child is aware of the general rule. Another way to use comparative and superlative adjectives is to use more and most in front of the adjective. Again, more is only used to compare two things and most is only used to compare more than two things. Perhaps our hardest set of pages takes a first look at adjective phrases, a term which many adults brought up in the seventies and eighties might not be aware of. An adjective phrase tells us something about the noun, but is two or more words in length. This is where grammar starts to become tricky! Take a look now at our very latest adjective worksheets. Word classes The new primary curriculum lays a much greater emphasis on grammar. So far we have concentrated on specific terms such as noun, verb and adverb, but our latest set of worksheets takes this a step further by looking at word classes. In these worksheets children will be recognising and using nouns, verbs and adjectives within the same sentence.