Highs and lows

Highs and lows

Update: 2025-12-23
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What's the most unusual food you've ever eaten? Or the furthest you've travelled in one day? Beth and Phil answer questions like this and our grammar guru explains how to form and use superlatives.

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essi

برای صفت عالی: - **با -est**: برای صفات یک‌هجایی یا دو‌هجایی با -y *مثال: tallest, happiest, prettiest* - **با the most**: برای صفات سه‌هجایی یا برخی دو‌هجایی *مثال: the most expensive, the most useful, the most tired* - **بی‌قاعده‌ها**: *good → best* *bad → worst* *far → furthest* همیشه قبل از صفت عالی از **the** استفاده می‌کنیم.

Dec 23rd
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essi

superlative (صفت) تفضیلی (در گرامر) chewiest جویدنی ترین vivid زنده furthest دورترین emu burger ایمیو برگر( برگر شترمرغ استرالیایی) the least likely کمترین احتمال، غیرمحتمل ترین beans on toast لوبیا روی نان تست reckon گمان کردن، حساب کردن، در نظر گرفتن Laos کشور لائوس basque باسک (منطقه ای در اسپانیا و فرانسه)

Dec 23rd
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