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Loukia Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Comparative-Superlative Form

Hi everyone!

A book of mine says that "one-syllable adjectives ending in -e take -r in the comparative form and in the superlativce form?"
What about two-syllable words. I'm asking because "we add -er/ -est to one-syllable and two-syllable adjectives to form their comparative and superlative forms", according to my book.
It also says that "teo-syllable adjectines ending in -y turn the -y into i and then take -er/est" What about one-syllable adjectives ending in -y?

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Can you give some examples of one syllable adjectives that end in "y"?

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Can you give some examples of one syllable adjectives that end in "y"?
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I know only one, shy.
Its comparative form is shyer and the superlative one shyest.
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loukiaA book of mine says that "one-syllable adjectives ending in -e take -r in the comparative form and in the superlativce form?"
What about two-syllable words. I'm asking because "we add -er/ -est to one-syllable and two-syllable adjectives to form their comparative and superlative forms", according to my book.
It also says that "teo-syllable adjectines ending
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How do we treat to two-syllable adjectives ending in -e and one-syllable adjectives ending in -y
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According to lucky one-syllable and two-syllable adjectives ending in y, omit y and take ier/iest. Am I right?
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loukiaone-syllable and two-syllable adjectives ending in y, omit y and take ier/iest. Am I right?
Right.

CJ
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loukiaAccording to lucky one-syllable and two-syllable adjectives ending in y, omit y and take ier/iest. Am I right?
As you've noted, there seems to be a scarcity of monosylabic adjectives ending in "y," and your "shy" example doesn't fit.
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I forgot my example of shy! You are right.

I'm so confusedEmotion: sad
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loukiaHow do we treat to two-syllable adjectives ending in -e and one-syllable adjectives ending in -y
gruesome - gruesomer - gruesomest

grotesque - grotesquer - grotesquest

(average is absolute, and can't have degrees)

awesome - awesomer - awesomest

obese - obeser - obesest
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loukiaI know only one, shy.
Its comparative form is shyer and the superlative one shyest.

The American Heritage Dictionary lists both shier, shiest (first) and shyer, shyest.
And the same for dry and wry.

Webster, however, (m-w.com) has all the same listings except there's no wrier, wriest.

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