Degrees of Compariso

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DEGREES OF COMPARISON
The Degrees of Comparison
shows how 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.

2. Degrees of comparison
degrees of
comparison
POSITIVE
DEGREE
COMPARATIVE
DEGREE
SUPERLATIVE
DEGREE
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3. Positive Degree
Positive
Degree
Degree of
equality
Degree of
inequality
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4. POSITIVE DEGREE
• One noun – person, thing or place – and one quality… above average
tall
– adjective
• John is a
man.
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5. Positive degree (continued)
• Eifel tower is a
tall
man-made structure.
One noun with one quality – ‘tall’ adjective in positive form
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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”.
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7. Degree of equality: example 1
• John is
as
strong
as
James.
‘strong’ – adjective in positive form showing equality
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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.
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9. Degree of inequality
• Peter is not
as (so)
fast
as
Paul.
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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 than the other.
• The adjective or 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.
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11. Comparative Degree: example
• A horse can run
faster
than
a dog.
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12. 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.
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13. Superlative Degree: example 1
• The elephant is the largest of all land animals.
• The giraffe is the tallest of all animals.
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14. Superlative Degree: example 2
• Susan is the most intelligent girl in the class.
Susan
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15. Degrees of Comparison: worksheet 1
• Gerald is footballer in our team.
fast
the fastest
the faster
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16. Degrees of Comparison: worksheet
2
• Tom is a boy.
stronger
the strongest
strong
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17. Degrees of Comparison: worksheet 3
• This man is , but that man is .
sad
happy
angry
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18. Degrees of Comparison: worksheet 4
• Kate is than Sue.
more active
activer
active
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19. Degrees of Comparison: worksheet 5
• The white flower is as as the red flower.
the most beautiful
more beautiful
beautiful
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20. Degrees of Comparison: worksheet 6
the weights, the it is to lift them.
The heavy
the difficult
The heavier
the more difficult
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21. Degrees of Comparison: worksheet 7
• The sea is getting .
rough and rough
rougher and rougher
the rougher and the rougher
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22. Degrees of Comparison: worksheet 8
• Mt. Everest is mountain in the world.
higher than
high
the highest
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