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3 Write a sentence, comparing each pair of animals or things. Example: juice / water – cool The juice is cooler than the water.
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1 tiger / cat – fierce 2 bicycle / car – fast 3 flower / weed – strong
4 school / church – far 5 elephant / snake – thin 6 cricket / football – good
When we compare longer adjectives, we use ‘more’ or ‘most’: more reliable than other brands the most affordable prices
4 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the adjectives.
1 I think that music is ________ entertaining than sport. 2 That was the _______ exciting match I’ve ever seen.
3 Connect Café has the ________ fantastic smoothies in town. 4 The computers there are ________ efficient than in the library. 5 Write sentences of your own using the following adjectives.
1 more expensive 2 the most amazing
3 more exciting 4 more famous
Changing nouns to adjectives
We can make adjectives by adding a suffix to a noun. beauty + ful = beautiful
comfort + able = comfortable
Complete these sentences by making each noun in brackets into an adjective. 1 The actor wore a ______ (fun) hat and ______ (dirt) shoes. 2 Playing with fire can be very ______ (danger). 3 I was ______ (misery) when my best friend moved to Canada. 4 Be ______ (care) when you are using sharp knives. 5 My uncle is a ______ (fame) radio presenter. Personal pronouns
Personal pronouns A pronoun takes the place of a noun. There are two types: Grandma hit the tree. She hit it. subject object
subject pronoun object pronoun
Subject pronouns I, you, he, she, it
Object pronouns me, you, him, her, it
Singular
we, you, they
us, you, them
Plural
• There is more work on suffixes on pages 60 and 145.
CR Students often find using pronouns in Standard English challenging as they are used differently in Creole. Help them to understand and practise spotting the difference between the subject and the object of sentences. DA Allow some students to answer fewer questions in each exercise.
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