Superlatives

We’ve been talking about comparatives how we can in detail describe the differences between things but I feel like before we really look at some examples of how to put all these things together we can very quickly talk about superlatives superlatives like a superlative as when you have something that is either all the way at the top or all the way at the bottom.

OK it’s not just more or less it’s all the way up here or all the way down here.

So there used to kind of two compare.

You might compare something and then say that one is the for example most beautiful.

This one is more beautiful.

It’s talking about these two things A is more beautiful than B and then A is the most beautiful.

That means not only is it more beautiful than B it’s more beautiful than all other things to be in that category.

OK.

So it follows the same rules that we learned before when we have one or two syllables then we’ll add e s t est instead of her right for superlatives fastest funniest coolest boldest quietest.

Right.

But you could also hear for example say most quiet.

It’s OK if you said most funny.

It’s OK.

It’s also OK.

So in these cases you can do you can do both.

And again you just need to pay attention to how these are used and which ones are more common.

So then for these it’s the same rule again three syllables or more.

And sometimes two like these.

So least experienced nothing is less than that.

It’s the least experienced.

OK.

We don’t need to use it then because we’re not comparing.

We don’t have to add then my brother is the least experienced maybe doctor I’ve ever met.

Which would be very scary least fortunate.

Again it’s the lowest.

OK.

We’re just using adjectives here fortunate experienced again these are three syllables or more and sometimes two syllables like this one for example we wouldn’t say usually we wouldn’t say bizarre list but we would often say most bizarre.

So the rule is the same for at least in most least as here most is here most bizarre most excited most fortunate most experienced least experienced least fortunate least excited least.

Bizarre.

So pay attention when you’re listening to movies or talking with people to whether or not for two syllable words people are using more or they’re using her or they’re using est or they’re using most or at least parts of pay attention to that.

And now let’s look at some real examples of how we can sort of put all this together.