 | Francis Andrew March - 1878 - 108 pages
...Write three describing the man on page 3. LESSON TWELFTH. [Fowler's Common School Grammar, §§ 20-97.] There are THREE DEGREES OF COMPARISON : the positive, the comparative, and the superlative. The positive describes simply. The comparative describes as having more of a quality. The superlative... | |
 | Thomas Murby (publisher.) - 1879 - 200 pages
...less; as, long, longer, longest; small, smaller, smallest. This is called the Comparison of Adjectives. There are three degrees of comparison, the Positive, the Comparative, and the Superlative. The Positive degree is the simple adjective ; as, safe, great. The Comparative degree is formed by... | |
 | Adam Speers - 1879 - 154 pages
...high, higher, highest, diligent, more diligent, most diligent, are called Degrees of Comparison. 164. There are three Degrees of Comparison : the Positive, the Comparative, and the Superlative. 165. The Positive Degree is the simple form of the Adjective, and merely denotes that an object possesses... | |
 | P. L. Rostèri - 1880 - 370 pages
...interim something on the Degrees of Comparison. On the Degrees of Comparison. It is usually said that there are three degrees of comparison : the positive, the comparative and the superlative. 87. The positive which is termed a degree of comparison, is nothing but the adjective itself; as bèllo,... | |
 | Goold Brown - 1851 - 1124 pages
...adjective, to express quality in different degrees: as, hard, harder, hardest; soft, softer, softest. There are three degrees of comparison ; the positive, the comparative, and the superlative. The positive degree is that which is expressed by the adjective in its simple form : as, "An elephant... | |
 | William Harvey Wells - 1880 - 208 pages
...comparison. 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 expresses the simple state of the quality : Wise, good, active. The comparative... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - 1880 - 280 pages
...of Adjectives. Comparison of adjectives is their variation to express different degrees of quality. There are three degrees of comparison — the Positive, the Comparative, and the Superlative. The Positive degree denotes a quality without a comparison; as, long, small; "Gold is hard." The Comparative... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1880 - 104 pages
...Distinguishing• Adjective, the Numeral Adjective, and the Adjective of Quality. XI. Adjectives have three degrees of comparison, the Positive, the Comparative, and the Superlative. 1 Noim — Latin, nomen, a name. 2 Adjective — Latin, ad,to, stndjaeere, to throw. ' Pronouns-pro,... | |
 | Léon Papin-Dupont - 1882 - 508 pages
...himself, after his manner, without any contrition. "M. de Bonald," he would say, " tells us somewhere that there are three degrees of comparison — the positive, the comparative, and the superlative — in all languages ; but that in French there is wanted a fourth, the excessive." "Now, as for me,"... | |
 | Léon Contanseau - 1882 - 148 pages
...friend88 is a great treasure86. This woman87 is very old. FORMATION OF THE DEGREES OF COMPARISON. 59 There are three degrees of comparison, — the Positive, the Comparative, and the Superlative. 60 The Positive is the adjective itself; as il est savant he is learned. are three sorts of Comparatives,... | |
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There are three degrees of comparison ; the positive, the comparative, and the superlative. 
