This advanced Class 8 worksheet takes students beyond basic comparative and superlative forms, challenging them to master complex usage. Through activities like underlining, multiple choice, fill-in-the-blanks, sorting, and sentence writing, learners refine their understanding and application of positive, comparative, and superlative degrees.
This worksheet helps learners:
1. Use comparative and superlative forms accurately in a range of contexts.
2. Avoid common errors such as double comparatives (*more better*) and incorrect forms (*interestinger*).
3. Recognize and apply degree forms for clarity and precision in writing and speech.
This worksheet includes five progressive exercises:
Exercise 1 – Underline the Degree of Comparison Adjective
Students underline the adjective showing degree of comparison in sentences like “This book is more interesting than the last one” and “That was the least helpful comment.”
Exercise 2 – Multiple Choice Questions
Learners select the correct degree form from three options, avoiding common mistakes.
Exercise 3 – Fill in the Blanks
Students insert the correct adjective degree to complete sentences meaningfully.
Exercise 4 – Label Degree Type
Sentences are labeled as Positive, Comparative, or Superlative based on the adjective form used.
Exercise 5 – Sentence Writing
Students write original sentences for given adjectives, applying them in the correct degree.
Exercise 1 – Underline adjectives showing degree of comparison
1. more interesting
2. faster
3. most difficult
4. better
5. least helpful
6. funnier
7. higher
8. best
9. less confusing
10. coldest
Exercise 2 – MCQs
1. a
2. c
3. b
4. a
5. b
6. b
7. a
8. c
Exercise 3 – Fill in the Blanks (Sample Answers)
1. hardest
2. faster
3. best
4. higher
5. best
6. funnier
7. worst
8. more
9. better
10. finest
Exercise 4 – Label Degree Type
Positive: This puzzle is hard. / He is tall. / This idea is good. / She is fast.
Comparative: This puzzle is harder than that one. / He is taller than his brother. / This idea is better than mine. / She is faster than me.
Superlative: This is the hardest puzzle ever. / He is the tallest boy in class. / This is the best idea. / She is the fastest in school.
Exercise 5 – Sample Sentences (Answers may vary)
1. This is the most important rule in the game.
2. He runs faster than anyone in his class.
3. That was the easiest question on the test.
4. The exam was very difficult for everyone.
5. She is the best singer in the competition.
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They are positive, comparative, and superlative, used to show different levels of quality.
By adding -er/-est for short adjectives or using “more/most” for longer adjectives.
Avoid double comparatives like “more better” and ensure the correct form is used for irregular adjectives.