chapter 5, lesson 5
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March 27, 2013 Agenda: • Literature
> Out of the Dust Test Prep. #3/4
Homework:• Vocabulary Writing #1 due on Thursday, 3/28
• Independent Reading Sheet & Log #1 due on Friday, 3/29
• Out of the Dust Short Response Test due on Tuesday, 4/9
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March 29, 2013 Agenda: • Spelling & Vocabulary
> Unit 14 Spelling PreTest, Grade & Lists
• Grammar
> Chapter 5, Lesson 5 : Making Comparisons
• Literature
> Out of the Dust Test Prep.
Homework:• Out of the Test Short Response Test due on Tuesday, 4/9
• Independent Reading & Log #2 due on Friday, 4/12
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Lesson 5: Making ComparisonsAdjectives and adverbs can be used to compare people or things. Special forms of these words are used to make comparisons.
• Use the COMPARATIVE FORM of an adjective or adverb when you compare a person or thing with one other person or thing.
Mount Rainier is higher than Mount Hood.
Mountain climbing is more dangerous than sky diving.
• Use the SUPERLATIVE FORM of an adjective or adverb when you compare someone or something with more than one other person or thing.
Mount Everst is the highest of the three mountains.
I think Mount Fuji is the most beautiful mountain of all.
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• For most onesyllable modifiers, add er to form the comparative and est to form the superlative.
Adjectives thin thinner thinnest
brave braver bravest
Adverbs slow slower slowest
soon sooner soonest
• You can also add er and est to some twosyllable adjectives. With others, and with twosyllable adverbs, use more and most.
Adjectives shallow shallower shallowest
awful more awful most awful
Adverbs calmly more calmly most calmly
briskly more briskly most briskly
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• With adjectives and adverbs having three or more syllables, use more and most.
Adjectives beautiful more beautiful most beautiful
dangerous more dangerous most dangerous
Adverbs gracefully more gracefully most gracefully
dangerously more dangerously most dangerously
• The comparative and superlative forms of some adjectives and adverbs are completely different. Do not add er or est to an irregular comparison.
Adjectives good better best
bad worse wosrt
Adverbs well better best
much more most
little less least
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Choose the correct comparative or superlative form to complete each sentence.
1. Austrailia's Great Barrier Reef is the (larger, largest) coral reef in the world.
2. The reef is also the (richer, richest) of all marine resources.
3. Biologists can (better, more better) study sea life near a reef than in open water.
4. The (biggest, most biggest) of all polyps, the animals that form a coral reef, are a foot in diameter.
5. Coral grows (better, best) of all in warm, shallow water.
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Choose the correct comparative or superlative form to complete each sentence.
6. During cold weather, vacationers visit the reef's northern islands (less, least) frequently than the southern ones.
7. A scuba dive is (more daring, most daring) than a glassbottomboat tour of the reef.
8. The Great Barrier Reef is (more fragile, most fragile) than a large rock formation would be.
9. The crownofthorns starfish is the reef's (deadlier, deadliest) enemy.
10. These starfish can devour polyps (more, most) quickly than the average starfish.
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