 | Noble Butler - 1846 - 272 pages
...objects are compared, are ealled comparison. When do uouns becomes adjectives ? ] What is comparison ? There are three degrees of comparison ; the positive, the comparative, and the superlative. The positive degree, or simple form of the adjective, simply expresses the quality of an object, without... | |
 | Noble Butler - 1871 - 80 pages
...What is an adjective? — a qualifying adjective 7 — a limiting adjective ': DEGREES OF COMPARISON. There are three degrees of comparison — the positive, the comparative, and the superlative. As, boH. bo'der, boldes*. cold, colder, coldest The positive degree is the simple form of the adjective... | |
 | Alpheus Crosby - 1846 - 480 pages
...the contracted forms of ixunv. CHAPTER VI. COMPARISON. ^155. ADJECTIVES and ADVERBS have, in Greek, three degrees of comparison, the POSITIVE, the COMPARATIVE, and the SUPERLATIVE. 1. COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES. In adjectives, the comparative is usually formed in -TIQOS, -A, -ov, and... | |
 | William Harvey Wells - 1847 - 228 pages
...The comparison of adjectives, is the variation by which they express different degrees of quality. There are three degrees of comparison ; — the positive, the comparative, and the superlative. The positive degree* is that which expresses the simple state of the quality ; as, good, wise. The... | |
 | Allen Hayden Weld - 1847 - 274 pages
...Time is short, Tempus est brevis. Lions are bold, Leo sunt audax. COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES. § 31. There are three Degrees of Comparison, the Positive, the Comparative and the Superlative. FORMATION OP THE COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE. The comparative is formed by annexing ior to the root,*... | |
 | Vocabulary - 1847 - 50 pages
...ADJECTIVES. An Adjective expresses some Property of a Noun. To Adjectives there belongs Comparison. There are three Degrees of Comparison ; The Positive, the Comparative, and the Superlative. The Positive Degree is the simple state of the Adjective. The Comparative, increases the Positive one... | |
 | William Harvey Wells - 1848 - 258 pages
...103. The comparison of adjectives is the variation by which they express different degrees of quality. There are three degrees of comparison ; — the positive,...comparative, and the superlative. 1. The positive degree* is that which expresses the sunpie state of the quality ; as, good, wise. Which is called the definite... | |
 | William Harvey Wells - 1848 - 252 pages
...comparison of adjectives is the variation by which they express different degrees of quality. There arc three degrees of comparison ; — the positive, the...comparative, and the superlative. 1. The positive degree* is that which expresses the simple state of the quality ; as, good, wise. Which is called the definite... | |
 | Harriet Smith - 1848 - 44 pages
...the Adjective admits is that of the degrees of Comparison. How many degrees of Comparison are there ? There are three degrees of Comparison, the Positive, the Comparative, and the Superlative. How does the Positive express the Adjective ? Without making the Adjective more, and without making... | |
 | George Gerard (professor of French.) - 1848 - 408 pages
...they not all equal ? Are not these ladies impartial ? 80 DEGREES OF SIGNIFICATION OF THE ADJECTIVE. There are three degrees of comparison ; the positive, the comparative, and the superlative. The positive, is the adjective without increase or diminution ; as, beau, belle, constant, constante.... | |
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There are three degrees of comparison ; the positive, the comparative, and the superlative. 
