Bria TS #15

             During this session, my tutee wanted to know the differences between comparative and superlative adjectives. I had to look up what this was because I did not remember which adjective form was which, but I remembered after a bit of research. Before I started talking about comparative and superlative adjectives, I gave my tutee a chart of the adjective forms that I found online. After this, I explained to him that comparative adjectives usually end in -er, such as bigger, taller, smarter, etc. I told my tutee that this adjective form is used when comparing two things to each other, and that a person uses the word “than” when comparing these things. For superlative adjectives, I told my tutee that they usually end in -est, such as biggest, tallest, smartest, etc. I also told him that a person uses this adjective form when stating that something is number one in a group of things. I gave my tutee some example sentences using each adjective form. I also had him make some sentences using each form in order to check for comprehension. The one thing that I learned from this session is that I need more explicit knowledge of the English language.