Degrees of Adjectives
Adjectives are words that describe nouns. They can express as degrees of a quality,
Three Main Degrees:
Adjective are categorized into three main degrees: positive, comparative, and superlative.
1. Positive Degree:
– The Positive degree shows quality of an object without reference to any other.
– **Example**: tall ,honest, happy, bright ,beautiful.
2. Comparative Degree:
– This form is used to compare two nouns, which shows that one has more or less of a quality than the other. It often ends in “-er” or uses “more” before the adjective.
Examples:
taller (from tall)
happier(from happy)
more beautiful (from beautiful)
3. Superlative Degree:
– This degree shows the highest degree of a quality among three or more nouns. This degree typically ends in “-est” or uses “most” before the adjective.
Examples:
tallest (from tall)
happiest (from happy)
most beautiful (from beautiful)
Examples in Sentences
– Positive: The mountain is tall.
–Comparative: This mountain is taller than that one.
Superlative: This is the tallest mountain in the region.
| Positive Degree | Comparative Degree | Superlative Degree |
| Near | Nearer | Nearest |
| Old | Older | Oldest |
| Clever | Clever | Cleverest |
| Fast | Faster | Fastest |
| Brave | Braver | Bravest |
| Active | More active | Most active |
| Careful | More Careful | Most careful |
| Difficult | More difficult | Most difficult |
| Beautiful | More beautiful | Most beautiful |
| Good | Better | Best |
| Bad | Worse | Worst |
| Many | More | Most |
| Little | Less | Least |
| Much | More | Most |
| Useful | More useful | Most useful |
| In | Inner | Inner most |
| Urgent | More urgent | Most urgent |
| Out | Outer | Outer most |
| Fore | Former | Fore most |
| Hungry | More hungry | Most hungry |
| Tall | Taller | Tallest |
| Noble | Nobler | Noblest |
| Rich | Richer | Richest |
| Honest | More honest | Most honest |