Parts of Speech - Adjectives 2
THREE DEGREES OF ADJECTIVE: 1. POSITIVE DEGREE: Simple adjectives are all in the state of positive degree because they do the job of only describing about the noun simply. For example: 1. Varalakshmi is TALL girl. 2. David is a BRIGHT student in the class. 3. Our house is a SMALL one. 4. Maradona was SHORT football player. 5. Cleopatra had been a BEAUTIFUL woman. 6. He is such an UGLY boy. 7. THAT question paper is very difficult (demonstrative pronoun as an adjective). In the above sentences Tall, Bright, Small, Short, Little, Beautiful, Ugly, That are used in POSITIVE DEGREE. The adjectives just describes the noun. 2. COMPARATIVE DEGREE: In this degree we use adjective to describe a noun and comparing any two persons or things or to compare one thing with other things those are more than two. We take the above positive degree adjectives to describe comparative degree. Varalakshmi is TALL girl comparing other student Vani in the class. So we c