WordStudy
Unit
6 Vocabulary
Comparative
Suffixes
-er,
-est,
-ier,
-iest
Comparative
suffixes
are
a group
of letters
added
to
the
end
of a word
to
compare
two
or
more
things.
Comparative
Suffix
Function
-er,
-ier
Compares
two
things
-est,
-iest
Compares
more
than
two
things
Adding
Comparative
Suffixes
early
y+ier
or iest
=earlier,
earliest
strange
e +er or
est
=stranger,
strangest
clean
+er or
est
=cleaner,
cleanest
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