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The degrees of comparison escalate as follows:
Positive
Comparative
Superlative
If you have three sentences as follows:
Henry is short.
David is shorter than Henry.
Thoreau is shortest of the three.
Short is the positive degree, shorter is the comparative degree, and shortest is the superlative degree.
In the sentence "Cheetahs are faster runners than lions" the adjective in question is faster. We know that its degree of comparison is comparative.
Answer:
A. comparative
Explanation:
More than 3 million people (including over 58,000 Americans) were killed in the Vietnam War, and more than half of the dead were Vietnamese civilians. ... Communist forces ended the war by seizing control of South Vietnam in 1975, and the country was unified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam the following year.
Answer:
After the Second World War, after the impact that the totalitarian Nazi, Fascist and Communist regimes had caused on the American population, both Democrats and Republicans came to the conclusion that they should bet on the total fulfillment of civil and political rights in America (especially regarding racial minorities, such as African Americans).
Thus, Democrats and Republicans reached an agreement regarding this issue, by which it was agreed that both political parties would support policies, measures and movements that would tend to maximize respect for individual freedoms and equality among American citizens. This agreement was called "the Liberal consensus".
The fastest way to communicate across continents in the 1500s was by ship. If you wanted to bring a certain message across a continent than there was no faster way than actually sending it on a ship and waiting for the ship to arrive safely to the other continent.
