Comparisons Of Adjectives (Cl-3)

 A) Read these sentences.
1) Ram's mango is sweet.
2) Harry's mango is sweeter than Ram's.
3) Peter's mango is the sweetest of all.

In sentence 1, the adjective sweet merely tells us that Ram's mango has the quality of sweetness, without saying how much of this quality it has.
In sentence 2, the adjective sweeter tells us that Harry's mango compared with Ram's has more quality of sweetness.
In sentence 3, the adjective sweetest tells us that of all these mangoes Peter's mango has the greatest amount or highest degree of the quality of sweetness.
We thus see that Adjectives change in form ( sweet, sweeter, sweetest ) to show COMPARISON.
These are called the three Degrees of Comparison.

A) The Adjective sweet is said to be in the POSITIVE DEGREE.
B) The Adjective sweeter is said to be in the COMPARATIVE DEGREE.
C) The Adjective sweetest is said to be in the SUPERLATIVE DEGREE.
For example :
                    Positive     Comparative     Superlative
1)                 sweet          sweeter               sweetest
2)                 small           smaller                smallest
3)                 tall              taller                    tallest