Today was a bit of a whirlwind of grammar. We started off with that quiz over chapter 36 and then did a quick proofread over our final how-to essays. The bulk of our class we focused on modification though, so that is what we will concentrate on here.
When we modify, we are adding extra detail or description to our writing. We can modify almost anything, our verbs, nouns, pronouns, adjectives and adverbs too! We use adjectives to modify (or describe) nouns and pronouns: the happy squirrel, for example. Happy is telling us about the squirrel. Click here for more stuff about adjectives.
But we also can modify our verbs by using an adverb (notice how verb is in adverb?): Carl knitted the sweater very nicely. Here, nicely is the adverb modifying how Carl knitted. We are getting more detail about the verb (knitted). Notice that the adverb ends in -ly and that is it really similar to nice. That -ly is a helpful difference, but click here to find out more about adverbs.
We can also use adverbs to modify more adverbs and adjectives: The cake is disgustingly gross. Here we see two modifications, disgustingly modifies gross, and gross modifies the cake (yum, sounds like a winner of a cake to me).
Furthermore, we use adverbs and adjectives when we compare. We use either the comparative (-er, more; used for two items) or the supperlative (-est, most; used for more than two items).
Comparative: Pete was the happier of the two clams.
Superlative: Pete was the happiest of all the clams.
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