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DEGREES OF COMPARISON

Learn about the different degrees of comparison in English grammar, including the positive, comparative, superlative, parallel, and progressive degrees. Understand how to form and use adjectives and adverbs to compare qualities, quantities, and positions of nouns.

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DEGREES OF COMPARISON

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  1. DEGREES OF COMPARISON The Degrees of Comparison in English grammar are made with the Adjective and Adverb words to showhow big or small, high or low, more or less, many or few, etc., of the qualities, numbers and positions of the nouns (persons, things and places) in comparison to the others mentioned in the other part of a sentence/expression. made by BCK

  2. Kinds of Degrees of comparison made by BCK

  3. Positive Degree made by BCK

  4. POSITIVE DEGREE • One noun – person, thing or place – and one quality… above average tall – adjective • John is a man. made by BCK

  5. Positive degree (continued) • Eifel tower is a tall man-made structure. One noun with one quality – ‘tall’ adjective in positive form made by BCK

  6. Degree of equality The adjective or adverb is in positive form showing that two persons or things are the same – two nouns having the same quality. • The common conjunction used is “as…as”. made by BCK

  7. Degree of equality: example 1 • John is as strong as James. ‘strong’ – adjective in positive form showing equality made by BCK

  8. Degree of inequality • The adjective or adverb is in positive form showing that two persons or things are not the same – two nouns not having the same quality. made by BCK

  9. Degree of inequality • Peter is not as (so) fast as Paul. made by BCK

  10. COMPARATIVE DEGREE • Two persons, things or places are being compared with one adjective or adverb to show that one has more quality or quantity of the adjective or adverb than the other. • The adjective or adverb takes ‘r’ or ‘er’ to its positive form, and is said to be in comparative form. The conjunction ‘than’ is used to connect the two clauses. made by BCK

  11. Comparative Degree: example • A horse can run faster than a dog. made by BCK

  12. Degree of Comparison: made by BCK

  13. Progressive Degree • Two adjectives or adverbs are being compared to show that one continues to increase (or decrease) when the other increases (or decreases). • The adjective or adverb is in its comparative form with the definite article ‘the’ before it. made by BCK

  14. Progressive Degree: example • The steeper the hill, themore difficult it is to push the rock up! made by BCK

  15. Parallel Degree • The quality or quantity of the adjective or adverb continues to increase (or decrease) as the time passes. • The adjective or adverb in its comparative form is repeated using the conjunction ‘and’. made by BCK

  16. Parallel Degree: example • The days are getting hotterand hotter. • It is getting hotterand hotter day by day. made by BCK

  17. SUPERLATIVE DEGREE • Comparing one noun – person, thing or place – with several others of its kind to show that this particular noun has the highest degree of the quality or quantity of the adjective or adverb being used to compare. • The adjective or adverb takes the ‘superlative form’, ending with ‘st’ or ‘est’, with the definite article ‘the’ before it. • The preposition ‘of’ is used when the comparison is among items, and ‘in’ is used to specify the place, position or area. made by BCK

  18. Superlative Degree:example 1 • The elephant is thelargest of all land animals. • The giraffe is thetallestof all animals. made by BCK

  19. Superlative Degree: example 2 • Susan is themost intelligent girl in the class. Susan made by BCK

  20. Degrees of Comparison: worksheet 1 • Gerald is footballer in our team. fast the fastest the faster made by BCK

  21. Degrees of Comparison: worksheet 2 • Tom is a boy. stronger the strongest strong made by BCK

  22. Degrees of Comparison: worksheet 3 • This man is , but that man is . sad happy angry made by BCK

  23. Degrees of Comparison: worksheet 4 • Kate is than Sue. more active activer active made by BCK

  24. Degrees of Comparison: worksheet 5 • The white flower is as as the red flower. the most beautiful more beautiful beautiful made by BCK

  25. Degrees of Comparison: worksheet 6 the weights, the it is to lift them. The heavy the difficult The heavier the more difficult made by BCK

  26. Degrees of Comparison: worksheet 7 • The sea is getting . rough and rough rougher and rougher the rougher and the rougher made by BCK

  27. Degrees of Comparison: worksheet 8 • Mt. Everest is mountain in the world. higher than high the highest made by BCK

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