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Grade 3 English Language Arts — Comparing with adjectives

Form the comparative and the superlative of an adjective, and use each one where it belongs.

Name: ________________________

  1. 1.Put the parts in order to make one correct sentence.

    • day
    • of the year.
    • Today
    • the hottest
    • is

  2. 2.Which word compares two things using "good"?

    • a) best
    • b) better
    • c) gooder
    • d) more good

  3. 3.Sort each adjective by how it makes its comparative.

    Groups: Adds -er · Puts "more" in front

    • tall
    • quick
    • expensive
    • small
    • interesting
    • beautiful

  4. 4.Sort each form: is it comparing two, or picking one out of them all?

    Groups: Comparing two · Out of them all

    • most careful
    • smallest
    • smaller
    • worst
    • worse
    • more careful

  5. 5.Match each adjective to its superlative.

    • good
    • bad
    • large
    • happy
    • thin
    • famous
    • thinnest
    • largest
    • most famous
    • worst
    • best
    • happiest

  6. 6.Two words, please. Compare with the adjective "careful": This driver is ____ than that one.

  7. 7.This road is ____ than the old one.

    • a) widest
    • b) most wide
    • c) wider
    • d) wide

  8. 8.Compare three or more with the adjective "happy": She is the ____ child in the whole class.

Answer key — Grade 3 English Language Arts — Comparing with adjectives

  1. 1. 1. Today 2. is 3. the hottest 4. day 5. of the year.
  2. 2. b) better
  3. 3. tall → Adds -er; beautiful → Puts "more" in front; quick → Adds -er; expensive → Puts "more" in front; small → Adds -er; interesting → Puts "more" in front
  4. 4. smaller → Comparing two; smallest → Out of them all; more careful → Comparing two; most careful → Out of them all; worse → Comparing two; worst → Out of them all
  5. 5. good → best; bad → worst; large → largest; happy → happiest; thin → thinnest; famous → most famous
  6. 6. more careful
  7. 7. c) wider
  8. 8. happiest