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Complete the sentence with the correct comparative or superlative adjective.

When the nurse checked in on me, she discovered that my cough was iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifbad than it had been the night before.

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Complete the sentence with the correct comparative or superlative adjective.

When the nurse checked in on me, she discovered that my cough was iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifbad than it had been the night before.

key idea

You can use adjectives to compare people, places, or things.

Comparative adjectives compare a thing or group to some other thing or group. They usually end in -er.

Superlative adjectives compare a thing or group of things to the larger group that it is part of. They usually end in -est.

The adjectives good and bad are irregular.

Base	Comparative	Superlative
good	better	best
bad	worse	worst

solution

Decide if you should use a comparative or superlative adjective. The sentence compares two things: my cough now and my cough the night before. So, you should use bad in its comparative adjective form, worse.

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