1 TRY OUT LANGUAGE
2 LEARN GRAMMAR
3 APPLY ON YOUR OWN
What is your favorite animal? Return to the Quickwrite you did on page 350. Compare your choice of animal to a partner’s choice.
Share what you know about your animal with a partner. Tell your partner what your animal looks like, where it lives, what it eats, and other interesting facts that you know. Then have your partner share information about his or her animal.
| My Animal: Jaguar | My Partner’s Animal: Amazon Parrot | |
|---|---|---|
| Appearance | tan or orange fur with black spots, large paws, sharp claws | green, yellow, and blue feathers, big beak, long claws |
| Habitat | Central and South America | Central and South America |
| Diet | eats meat and fish | eats vegetables, fruit, seeds, grains, and nuts |
| Other facts | strong swimmer, hunter | can talk and sing |
Now compare your animal to your partner’s animal. Talk about the things that are the same and the things that are different. Trade roles.
When you make comparisons, you describe how things are alike and different. Use adjectives that compare details about the two things.
Add -er to the end of one-syllable adjectives.
| EXAMPLE | The jaguar is faster than the parrot. |
If the adjective has three or more syllables, use more before the adjective.
| EXAMPLE | The parrot is more colorful than the jaguar. |
If the adjective has two syllables, you can sometimes use either form.
| EXAMPLE | The jaguar is a more skillful hunter. |