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Unit 10: Parts of Speech and Common Errors in English
Now that you know how to form comparisons with adjectives and adverbs, follow these notes
guidelines to make these comparisons correct.
1. Use the comparative degree (-er or more form) to compare two things.
Example: 1. Your memory is better than mine.
2. Bill Gates is more successful than Donald Duck, Don Ameche, or Don Ho.
2. Use the superlative form (-est or most) to compare three or more things.
Example: 1. This is the largest room in the house.
2. This is the most awful meeting.
3. Never use -er and more or -est and most together. One or the other will do the trick nicely.
Example: No: This is the more heavier brother.
Yes: This is the heavier brother.
No: He is the most heaviest brother.
Yes: He is the heaviest brother.
Task List all the adjectives that you can use to describe the following:
1. Education system in India
2. The Taj Mahal
3. Sachin Tendulkar
4. Indian Army
10.1.5 verbs
A verb is a word or group of words which expresses action, or presents a state in which a thing
or person is, or joins the subject with the rest of the sentence.
We cannot write or speak a complete sentence without at least one verb in it. Verbs do the
following things:
1. Verb express action.
Example: 1. I read poetry sometimes
2. She plays basketball daily
2. Some verbs (known as linking verbs) show the relation of the subject with the rest of the
sentence and complete the sense of the sentence.
Example: 1. They feel happy
2. The child is hungry
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