 | George Hodgdon Ricker - 1887 - 112 pages
...adjective to express quality or quantity in different degrees. Hard, harder, hardest. Wise, wiser, wisest. There are three degrees of comparison : the positive, the comparative, and the superlative. The positive is the simplest form of the adjective. The comparative of monosyllables is regularly formed... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1887 - 266 pages
...influence on each other. 13. Most adjectives are now inflected for purposes of comparison only. 14 There are three Degrees of Comparison : the Positive ; the Comparative ; and the Superlative. (i) The word degree comes from the French degri, which itself comes from the Latin gradus, a step.... | |
 | Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough - 1888 - 528 pages
...dearly , leviter, lightly ; Scerrime, most eagerly ($ 148. a, t) . COMPARISON. In Latin, as in English, there are three degrees of comparison : the Positive, the Comparative, and the Superlative. 1. Regular Comparison. 89. The Comparative is regularly formed by adding -ior (neuter -ius1), the Superlative... | |
 | Henry Kiddle - 1889 - 186 pages
...variation of the form of the adjective to express quality in different degrees is called comparison. There are three degrees of comparison ; the positive, the comparative, and the superlative. The positive degree is expressed by the adjective in its simple form. Thus heavy, in the above sentence,... | |
 | Joseph Henry Allen - 1894 - 520 pages
...dearly i leviter, lightly; acenimS, most eagerly (§ 148. a, t}. COMPARISON. In Latin, as in English, there are three degrees of comparison : the Positive, the Comparative, and the Superlative. 1, Regular Comparison. 89. The Comparative is regularly formed by adding -ior (neuter -ius1), the Superlative... | |
 | William Coe Collar, Moses Grant Daniell - 1901 - 328 pages
...superavit. LESSON XXXI. Comparison of Adjectives. ABLATIVE OF COMPARISON. 190. In Latin, as in English, there are three degrees of comparison, the positive, the comparative, and the superlative. 191. POSITIVE. COMPARATIVE. SUPERLATIVE. altus (alto-), high altior altissimus brevia (brevi-), short... | |
 | William Coe Collar, Moses Grant Daniell - 1894 - 328 pages
...ARCUS. LESSON XXXI. Comparison of Adjectives. ABLATIVE OF COMPARISON. 190. In Latin, as in English, there are three degrees of comparison, the positive, the comparative, and the superlative. 191. POSITIVE. COMPARATIVE. SUPERLATIVE. altus (alto-), high altior altissimus brevis (brevi-), short... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1894 - 232 pages
...; as, great, greater, greatest. There are three degrees of quality expressed in grammar, and hence there are three degrees of comparison : the positive, the comparative, and the superlative. The simple form of the adjective is called its positive degree ; as, large, long, short. The form of... | |
 | C. Heywood - 1895 - 138 pages
...sugar, a sheet of paper. •HI. — ADJECTIVES •i"V. Modifications*. — Degrees of comparison. — There are three degrees of comparison : the positive, the comparative and the superlative; as, wise, wiser, wisest. To the positive degree may be referred the so-called comparative of equality,... | |
 | William D. Hall - 1897 - 220 pages
...quantity, is called Comparison. Adjectives are inflected to show comparison. 107. Degrees of Comparison. There are three degrees of comparison: The Positive, the Comparative, and the Superlative. The Positive degree denotes the mere existence of the quality; as, sweet grapes bright days cheerful... | |
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There are three degrees of comparison ; the positive, the comparative, and the superlative. 
