English Lesson 12 Irregular Comparative and Superlative Adjectives

As you have learned in Lessons 10 and 11, the regular way to make comparative/superlative adjectives is to add -er/-est or to use more/most. Some adjectives have irregular comparatives and superlatives forms. Study the chart below.

Practice

Directions:  Fill in the blanks using good, better, or best.

1. Crickets are said to foretell __________ luck.
2. Songs of the cricket are the _______________ blessing a person could hear.
3. A cricket's wings are _______________ for singing than flying.
4. Crickets have ___________ legs for jumping from place to place.
5. The male is the _______________ singer.
6. The __________ place for a female cricket to lay eggs is on the ground.
7. One _________ thing about crickets is you can approximate the Fahrenheit temperature outside by the number of chirps they emit each minute.
8. Crickets like to eat greens __________ than anything else.

Directions: Circle the correct bold word to correctly complete each sentence.

9. Chester was the good, better, best friend Mario could ever have.
10. The mulberry leaf was tasty, but the Hershey bar was even good, better, best.
11. The bad, worse, worst event in Mario's life was Chester leaving.
12. Chester lives the further, furthest away from Mario.
13. Chester is less, least fond of chocolate than mulberry leaves.
14. The more, most fun Chester ever had was playing for the other animals in the meadow back home.
15. Chester is better, best at singing than Harry Cat.
16. Harry Cat gave Tucker the worse, worst headache he had ever had.
17. Please say this is the better, best performance of the night.
18. Musical America is better, best than International Song Magazine.