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DEGREES OF COMPARISON
1 DEGREES OF COMPARISON adjectives have three DEGREES of COMPARISON . They are: 1. Positive degree 2. Comparative degree , and 3. Superlative degree When an adjective is used in a simple form, it is said to be positive degree * Rama is a clever boy. * Sita is pretty. In these sentences clever and pretty are in the positive degree . Look at the following sentences: * Rama is cleverer than his brother * Sita is prettier than her sister. In these sentences Rama is compared with his brother and Sita is compared with her sister. So the adjectives are in the comparative degree . The comparative degree of adjectives is followed by the conjunction than. Please note that than is used as a conjunction in grammatically correct English. However, in conversational English than is often treated as a preposition.
When pronouns are used, the learner should treat ‘than’ as a conjunction and use the subject-form of the pronoun. , like I, he, she they etc. When more than two persons or things are compared, we use the superlative degree of adjectives. * Rama is the cleverest boy in the class. * Sita is the prettiest girl in the school.
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