Name: 英文法を学ぶ: 上品な形容詞 (Learn English Grammar: Superlative Adjectives)
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Today I'm going to teach you about
something that's super: Superlatives.

Are you a bit confused
about superlatives?

Now, understand I'm teaching you with adjectives,
not adverbs, because that's a whole other lesson.

So, superlatives as adjectives
- they're the best.

We don't say: "They're the
goodest" for a reason.

What we have to understand about superlatives
are: There can be only one superlative.

If you're looking at another grammar called
comparative, there have to be two things to compare.

For example, red and
blue; purple and yellow.

But with superlatives
there's only one thing.

And what we're telling you is
that this one is number one.

There's no other competition
for this adjective.

So, the way that we make superlatives,
you're going to have two choices.

You can either put: "the" plus your adjective
plus "-est", or you can put: "the" plus "most"

So, how do you know which adjective will get
"est" and which one will get "the most"?

We get to do something very fun
called counting syllables.

First of all, we have to
understand what a syllable is.

A syllable is a vowel sound,
or how long the word is.

So, when we count syllables we have to be
very careful, and we're only going to count

the vowel sounds of the words; not the
vowels because this gets confusing.

Once we have counted the vowel
sounds, we use "est" or "the most".

So let's do some simple examples
and I'll tell you our game.

The first one: How many syllables
or how many verb sounds...?

Or vowel sounds do we have
in the word "beautiful"?

If we simply count the vowels,
we've got one, two, three, four...

Oo, we've got five vowels, but in English,
"beautiful" is not five syllables, it's only

three because if you have two or three vowels
together, they're only going to make one vowel

So, in English, the word "beautiful"
is only three syllables.

If we look at this word: "gentle", we don't
say: "gentl-e", but because it's "le" together,

this is going to make another
syllable sound, so we say: "gentle".

This one is two syllables,
this one is three.

Because the vowels are separated with consonants,
the vowels are not together, we can actually

Sorry, one vowel sound,
one vowel sound is two.

This one's easy, there's only one vowel, there's
only one vowel sound, so it's going to be

Now, be careful, in English if we have an "e"
at the end of the word, we don't say it.

So we don't say: "blu-e",
we just say: "blue".

So in this, how many
syllables are there?

So we just say: "blue",
the "e" is silent.

My favourite colour is two
syllables: "pur-ple".

Again, I told you if it ends in "le" we're
going to actually put another syllable here.

This is an exception to
our vowel-counting rule.

"Good" has two vowels together,
but it only makes one sound.

We don't say in English:
"larg-e", we say: "large".

So, again, because the "e" is
silent this only has one syllable.

And a lot of people get
confused, but there's only one.

So, if you look at our words, the very first
thing that we're going to do is we're going

to count the syllables, we're
going to count the vowel sounds.

Now, this is how we have to figure out: When
do we use "est" and when do we use "the most"?

So if your word has one syllable,
it's always going to be "est".

Well, colour is an adjective, so you can say:
"Wow, that's the bluest sky I've ever seen

We can use colours with this
because colours are adjectives.

So, it might sound weird for you at first,
but it's completely normal, just like me.

If your word is small and it has one
syllable, you're going to use "est".

If your word has more than one syllable,
then you're going to use "the most".

So, one, one, one, one, one - we'd put "est";
two, three, two, two, two, two, one - we would

So, "beautiful" would become: "the
most beautiful", because it has three.

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