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    The Precedes The Superlative. The Inflected

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    The document discusses adjectives and adverbs. It defines adjectives as words that describe or modify nouns and pronouns. It then explains the three degrees of comparison for adjectives: positive, comparative, and superlative. The comparative is used to compare two things and the superlative is used to compare three or more things. Certain adjectives have irregular forms in the comparative and superlative degrees. The document also briefly mentions adverbs.

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    The document discusses adjectives and adverbs. It defines adjectives as words that describe or modify nouns and pronouns. It then explains the three degrees of comparison for adjectives: positive, comparative, and superlative. The comparative is used to compare two things and the superlative is used to compare three or more things. Certain adjectives have irregular forms in the comparative and superlative degrees. The document also briefly mentions adverbs.

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    The document discusses adjectives and adverbs. It defines adjectives as words that describe or modify nouns and pronouns. It then explains the three degrees of comparison for adjectives: positive, comparative, and superlative. The comparative is used to compare two things and the superlative is used to compare three or more things. Certain adjectives have irregular forms in the comparative and superlative degrees. The document also briefly mentions adverbs.

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    The Precedes The Superlative. The Inflected

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    The document discusses adjectives and adverbs. It defines adjectives as words that describe or modify nouns and pronouns. It then explains the three degrees of comparison for adjectives: positive, comparative, and superlative. The comparative is used to compare two things and the superlative is used to compare three or more things. Certain adjectives have irregular forms in the comparative and superlative degrees. The document also briefly mentions adverbs.

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    Adjectives:

    A)

    Adjectives are words that describe or modify another person or thing or nouns and pronouns in the sentence.

    Examples: the tall professor a solid commitment a month's pay a six-year-old child the unhappiest, richest man

    B)

    Degrees of Adjectives:

    The degrees of comparison are known as the positive, the comparative, and the superlative. (Actually, only the comparative and superlative show degrees.) We use the comparative for comparing two things and the superlative for comparing three or more things. Notice that the word than frequently accompanies the comparative and the word the precedes the superlative. The inflected

    suffixes -er and -est suffice to form most comparatives and superlatives, although we need -ier and -iest when a two-syllable adjective ends in y (happier and happiest); otherwise we use more and most when an adjective has more than one syllable.

    Positiv Comparativ Superlative e e rich lovely richer lovelier richest loveliest most beautiful

    beautif more ul beautiful

    Certain adjectives have irregular forms in the comparative and superlative degrees:
    Irregular Comparative and Superlative Forms good bad little much better worse less more best worst least most

    many some far further furthest

    The as as construction is used to create a comparison expressing equality:

    Examples: He is as foolish as he is large. She is as bright as her mother.

    ADVERBS:

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