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Adjectives

Adjectives modify nouns.  Small, black, knobby, impossible, peculiar, sticky, reprehensible are adjectives.  There is a potentially infinite number of adjectives.  Adjectives are normally used in their positive forms but may be inflected into comparative and superlative forms to indicate degree in relation to other objects.  Some two-syllable adjectives and all adjectives with more than two syllables use more to form the comparative and most to form the superlative forms.

positive

comparative

superlative

tall

taller

tallest

grumpy

grumpier

grumpiest

indecisive

more indecisive

most indecisive

 

A few adjectives have irregular comparative and superlative forms:

positive

comparative

superlative

good

better

best

bad

worse

worst

 

  Excerpted with permission from SAT Practice: The New Verbal Section.