Comparison of Adjectives

 

■Comparision of adjectives■

 Examples of degrees of adjectives

1.Mr. Patel  is rich.

2. Mr. Walker is richer than Mr.Patel

3. Mr. Beans is the richest man of  the three.

 

In the first sentence rich is an adjective.  But in 2^nd and 3^rd sentence form of adjective rich is changed to show the comparison. These three forms are called degrees of comparison.

 

•The simple form of the adjective is called the Positive degree of the adjective.

For  example, (Sentence no. 1) When we say Mr. Patel is rich .

Here we are not comparing

 Mr. Patel with any other person.

 

•The form of the adjective used in comparing two objectives is called the Comparative Degree of the adjective.

For Example, (Sentence no. 2)

When we say Mr. walker is richer than Mr. Patel.

Here we are comparing Mr. Patel and M. Walker.

Means we have used richer…comparative degree to compare two persons.

 

•The form of the adjective used in comparing more than two objects is called the Superlative Degree of the adjective.

For Example, (Sentence no. 3)

When we say  Mr. Beans is the richest man of three.

Here we are comparing Mr. Patel, Mr. Walker,Mr.Beans. Hence the superlative form of adjective is used when comparing more than two objects or persons.

 

 

Some example of Degrees of adjective

The comparative usually formed by adding –er to positive.

The superlative is Usually formed by adding –est.

When the positive ends with –y  , Y is changed  into I  before –er.

When the positive  is a word of  one syllable and ends  in a single consonant preceded by a short vowel, the final  consonant is doubled before –er or –est.

 

Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Young	Younger	youngest
Short	Shorter	Shortest
Tall	Taller	Tallest
Noble	Nobler	Noblest
Rich	Richer	Richest
Great	Greater	Greatest
Brave	Braver	Bravest
Fine	Finer	Finest
Bold	Bolder	Boldest
Large	Larger	Largest
Big	Bigger	Biggest
Small	Smaller	Smallest
Clever	Clevere	Cleverest
Fat	Fatter	Fattest
Sad	Sadder	Saddest
Red	Redder	Reddest
Hotter	hotter	hottest
Large	Larger	Largest
Wise	wiser	wisest
Heavy	Heavier	Heaviest
Pretty	Prettier	Prettiest
Happy	Happier	Happiest
Merry	Marier	Marriest

 

Most two syllable adjectives mainly adding –ed or –ing and –ful  and all adjective s of three or more syllables  form their comparative  and superlative  by adding more and most before  the positive form.

POSITIVE	COMPARATVE	SUPERLATIVE
Tired	More Tired	Most Tired
Boring More	More Boring	Most   Boring
Interesting	More interesting	Most Interesting
Pleasing	More pleasing	Most pleasing
Intelligent	More  Intelligent	Most Intelligent
Awful	More  Awful	Most   Awful
Beautiful	More  Beautiful	Most    Beautiful
Thoughtful	More   Thoughtful	Most  Thoughtful
Cheerful	More Cheerful	Most cheerful
Proper	More proper	Most proper
Courageous	More courageous	Most corageous
Industrious	More industrious	Most industrious

 

There are few adjectives whose comparison and superlative forms are inrregular. The most important are the following.

 

POSITIVE	COMPARATVE	SUPERLATIVE
Good	better	best
Bad	worse	worst
Little	less	least
Much	more	most
Many	more	most
Late	Later/ latter	Latest/last
Far	farther	farthest
Old	older	oldest

 

 

Adjectives often confused:😇

■1. Later, latter , latest, last: Later and latest refer to time; latter and last refer to position.

He is later than  I expected.

I have not heard the latest news.

The last chapter is carelessly written.

 The later chapters are not interesting.

Latter is used often wrongly for last

Use latter when only two  things are discussed, use last when more than two things are discussed.

Of the three , tea, coffee, and cocoa , the last (not latter) is his favourite.

☆2. elder, older,; eldest, oldest;

Elder and eldest are used for people not for animals and things. And are confirmed to members of the same family.

Elder  is not followed by than.

Older and oldest are used for both people and things.

Jack is my elder brother. Tom is my eldest son.

He is older than his sister.

Ram is the oldest boy in the class.

☆3. Farther, further: both farther and further are used to express distance . Further is usedto mean in “ additional”

Kolkata is farther/further from the equator than Colombo.

After this discussion he did not make further remarks.

☆4. Nearest, next: Nearest denotes distance. Next denotes  position.

Mumbai is seaport  nearest to Europe.

My friend lives next to my house.

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