Cover of the textbook Outcomes Pre-Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 7

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 5 - The best game in the world for the textbook Outcomes Pre-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Look at the sentences from the talk. Then work in pairs and discuss the questions below.

Answer

  1. When an adjective has three or more syllables (some two-syllable adjectives also use most).
  2. 2 We use -est when the adjective has one or two syllables (but remember that some two-syllable adjectives also use most).
  3. 3 Because the adjective ends in -y and the y becomes i + est.