What is the best gift you've ever gotten

Shooting Game -- Superlative --est/most vs. Comparative --er/more

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Shopping Around (Kids' video to practice too)

too, very, or so?

Game to practice comparative

Where is the best place to buy your groceries this week?
Here are some links with some grocery sales.  Most show the sale prices this week, but Walmart is easy to search by product. (Thing you want to buy).  Comparing is easier if you pick something on sale at another store then search for the same thing on the Walmart page.

Aldi's

Amazon Fresh

Lidl

Giant food circular -- pick your store first

Fresh World

Shoppers Food Warehouse

Harris Teeter Specials

H-Mart

Walmart

Target

Wegmans

Food Lion

Amazon

Costco

J and L Green Farms

Farmer's Markets in Northern VA

The Sweetest....

"We have taken many rides on troubled shores" means we have experienced problems.

It's a metaphor -- not an expression you should use.

shore=beach (or land near the line between water and land)

Superlative Examples

Do you like sugary desserts?  What is the sweetest dessert that you like?  What makes you happy?  What are your sweetest memories?

Comparing things

Adjectives that compare 2 things = Comparative

1 syllable -  add ER  (short -- shorter, tall--taller)
1 syllable that was spelled with 1 consonant -- 1 vowel -- 1 consonant-- repeat the last consonant to keep the short (not the name) vowel sound -- add ER  (big-bigger, thin--thinner)
2 syllables that end in ow or le  add ER (yellow-yellower, little--littler)
2 syllables that end in Y -- change the Y to I and add ER  (pretty--prettier, happy-happier)
Other 2 syllables act like
3 or more syllables:  Use the word more before the adjective.  (more modern, more beautiful, more interesting)

Superlative= Adjectives that compare 3 or more things - use the same categories, 

                      but add THE and use different suffixes (est) or helping words.(The most)

1 syllable - add EST (short - the shortest, tall - the tallest)

1 syllable CVC - 1 consonant 1 vowel 1 consonant -- double the last letter and add EST.  The Biggest, the Thinnest.

2 syllables that end with ow or le act like 1 syllable:  Narrowest, littlest

2 syllables ending in Y -- NO Y -- add iest pretty-prettiest, happy-happiest, silly- silliest

Other 2 syllables act like

3 or more syllables -- NO ENDING -- USE THE MOST before the adjective:  The most modern, the most beautiful, the most interesting.

Exceptions:  good -- better -- the best

                      bad - worse than -- the worst

                      far -- farther -- the farthest

                      fun -- more fun -- the most fun

Rules and Examples in a slideshow

Comparative

Comparative and Superlative

Nearest to Craziness

 

Did you feel crazy when you first fell in love?  IWhat actions drivesyou crazy?

The Best things in life are free!

 

What are the best things in your life?  Are the best things really free?

Stay

(Challenge video because some of it is fast.  I hope you enjoy it.)  

Where are the best and worst places you stayed when you last (most recently) traveled?

How do you prepare when you plan to have company?  How do you make their stay wonderful?