Question

Match the definition to the degree of comparison.

Answer 1

Answer:

1. Superlative: compares three or more things.

2. Positive: simply modifies; not comparing anything.

3. Comparative: compares two things.

Explanation:

An adjective is one of the parts of speech in English language and it can be defined as a word that qualifies or describes a noun in a sentence. Some examples of an adjective are big, small, happy, tall, short, fat, rambunctious, etc.

In English language, there are three (3) forms of adjectives and these includes;

I. Positive adjectives: it is the simplest form of an adjective that expresses the quality of a physical object, person, place, etc., without comparison.

II. Comparative adjectives: it is used for comparing two things, person or place. Signal word such as more is used for comparison or the suffix "er" is added to the adjective.

III. Superlative adjectives: it is used to show that a person or thing has a greater degree of quality than two or more other persons or things. Thus, it is used for comparing three or more people, things, place, etc.