Comparatives and superlatives.

COMPARATIVES (-er) : To compare 2 things / people.

SUPERLATIVES (-est) : To compare 3 or more things / people. 

• 1 or 2 syllable words.

Adjective est / er.

• 3 or more syllable words. 

Most / Least + adjective.

More / Less + adjective.

• Be verb the (superlative adjective)

Furtado Nelly. (2009). Try. Youtube.

Participle adjectives. 

We use past participle adjectives to express feelings. 

Present Participle.                                                               Past Participle.

        -ing                                                                                        -ed

  Exciting (cause)                                                                    Excited (feeling)

The drive era. (2022). Be happening. Youtube.

Adjective Clauses with Prepositions.

This sentences have two parts, the main clause and the adjective clause. 

Adjective clause tell us more about main clause. 

• To (you only can put this preposition before the verb with whom) whom I spoke yesterday. 
• Whom I spoke to (preposition after verb) yesterday. 
• Who I spoke to yesterday.
• That I spoke to yesterday.
• (-) I spoke to yesterday.

• About (you only can put this preposition before the verb with which) which I told you. 
• Which I told you about. (preposition after verb)
• That I told you about. 
• (-) I told you about.

Kinsella Murray. (2023). I'd made my decision that I wanted to wear green, no to be in red. The 42.

https://www.the42.ie/tadhg-beirne-ireland-wales-2-5983615-Jan2023/

Reduce Adjective Pronouns.

SHORTER FORM: 

• No pronouns. (who, which, that)
• Verb form is changed. 

LONGER.                                                                                                             SHORTER.

The boy who is sitting in the middle is 11 years old.                -                   The boy sitting in the middle is 11 years old.

1. Use only with subject pronouns.
2. Proggresive tense/ prepositional phrase/ passive voice. 

            <<cut who / which / that and be verb>>

    3.  With negative keep not. 

   - I like taking picture of people who aren't (not) looking. 

    4. No be verb. 

       << cut who / which / that and add -ing to verb>>

(2023) Reduce adjectives. English Grammar.

https://www.englishgrammar.org/reduced-relative-clauses/

Appositives. 

• Cut the adjective clauses and be verb. 
• Don't cut commas or ''a, an, the"

NORMAL FORM: Marvel, which is a company of comics, and movies. 

APPOSITIVE FORM: Marvel, a company of comics and movies. 

Anderson Sarah. (2014). Appositives. San José state University Writing Center.

https://www.sjsu.edu/writingcenter/docs/handouts/Appositives.pdf