How To Use Adjective :Degree Of Comparison

 

Adjective

Adjective says something more about a noun. An adjective can take an adverb of degree (intensifier) like too/very. It has comparative and superlative forms as well. Adjectives in English are not affected by number or gender or case because they do not have to agree with the noun they modify.

 Degrees of Comparison 

A significant formal feature of attributive adjectives is that they can be graded. This is known as degrees of comparison.. There are three degrees of comparison:

i) positive          ii) comparative          iii) Superlative 

  bold                       bolder                           boldest
  sweet                     sweeter                         sweetest
   long                      longer                          longest

Positive degree-
 It is used in sentence as follows-
1) he is bold.
2)she is tall.
3)she is beautiful.


Comparative degree

 i) An adjective in comparative degree is normally followed by than.
1. Tom is taller than John.
 2. She is older than him.
3. This picture is more beautiful than that one. 

 Superlative degree 

This construction is used to compare more than two people or things:
 1. This is the best offer of all.
 2 This is the oldest church in India.
 3 Everest is the highest peak on earth. 

Positive is Big Fat Hot Sad Glads Silm thin comparative bigger fatter hotter sadder gladder slimmer thinner superlative biggest fattest hottest saddest gladdest slimmest thinnest