Lesson 2 More Adjectives—Good, Better, Best

Lesson 2

More Adjectives¡ªGood, Better, Best

Use good when you do not want to compare

anything with anything.

Collies are good dogs.

Use better to compare two things.

Collies are better sheepdogs than

German shepherds.

Use best to compare three or more things.

Some people think border collies are the best

sheepdogs.

Y

D

U compare (k?m par?) to show how things are alike or

T

S

different

WORDS WORDS WORDS

WORDS WORDS WORDS

WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS

WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS

Say this word to someone.

1.

Underline good, better, or best.

Mr. Lyle raises good, better, best sweet potatoes.

2.

Robbie is a good, better, best worker than Fred.

4.

This is the good, better, best book in the library.

3.

5.

6.

Tomatoes have a good, better, best flavor.

Of the six houses on our street, this one is the good, better, best.

The blue truck runs good, better, best than the white one.

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WE REMEMBER

7.

8.

Underline the complete subject once and the complete predicate

twice. Put a dot above the simple subject and an above the simple

predicate.

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Sweet, sticky sap dripped into the bucket.

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Colorful maple trees waved their branches in the breeze.

Write the number of the correct meaning in each box.

yard

9.

10.

11.

12.

13.

6

14.

1. grassy space around a house

2. thirty-six inches; three feet

2 Mother bought a yard of material.

1 The aunts and uncles had a picnic in the backyard.

Circle all the verbs. Underline the compound sentence.

Rose and Sharon went to Grandmother¡¯s house, but the twins

stayed at home.

Rose, Sharon, and the twins went to Grandmother¡¯s house.

Cross out the word in each sentence that is not used correctly.

Write the correct word above it.

any

She doesn¡¯t have no pencils.

were

We was about to go home when it began to rain.

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CLE

Penmanship

Can you imagine a silver picture with golden apples in it?

It would be beautiful, wouldn¡¯t it? The Bible says words

spoken in the right way and at the right time are ¡°like apples

of gold in pictures of silver.¡± They are beautiful words.

15.

16.

Write this proverb.

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?¨¢?¨¢??¨²????? ¨¹??? ¨®?¨¹?¨²??? ¨¢???? ¨¢?¨¢??¨¬¨¢¨º¨¢??¡ì????? ¨¹???

??¨¢??¨²?????¡ì?.

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yes

I put my penmanship paper into my folder.

no

S-P-E-L-L-I-N-G

17.

18.

19.

Write the words that begin with f in alphabetical order.

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Write the root words and add a suffix to each.

near

greedy

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hour

roast

?¨°?¨¹???¡ì?¨²???

?¡ì?¨¹????¨¢¨º?????

Answers may vary.

Write the words that have the 9 sound. Circle the letters that say 9.

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¨®?¡ì?¨¹????¨¢????¨®? ?¡ì?¨¹????¨¢¨º?????

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Alphabetical Order

You have learned to write words beginning with the same

letters in alphabetical order. Use the same steps to write

words in alphabetical order when the first three letters in

each word are the same.

1

1.

place

3

plaza

2

plain

Number these words in alphabetical order.

4 player

1 plank

3 plastic

2 plaque

When the first four letters in words are the same, cross

out the letters that are the same. Then use the next letter

to alphabetize the words.

deliberate

delightful

delicious

delicious

delightful

deliberate

Sometimes more than the first four letters are the same.

Follow the same steps to alphabetize them.

regulate

regular

2.

8

Cross out the letters that are the same and write the words in

alphabetical order.

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¨®?¡ì???¨¬¨¢??¨¹?????

¨®?¡ì???¨¬???¨²???

grackle

graceful

gracious

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3.

4.

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?¨´??¨¢????¨²???????

?¨´??¨¢????¨²???

?¨´??¨¢???¨¢¨º??¨¢????

mainly

mainland

main

maintain

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?¡ì??¨¢????¨¬?¨¹??¨¢¨º?

?¡ì??¨¢????????¨²?¨²?

?¡ì??¨¢??????

rainfall

rainbow

rainy

raincoat

WE REMEMBER

5.

Underline the correct choices.

Th7, Th? family stayed on a, an island for th7, th? night.

Write the number of the correct meaning for each sentence.

bark

6.

7.

1. the sound a dog makes

2. the covering of the trunk and branches of a tree

Did you hear that gruff

The

2 is rough.

1 last night?

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