📊 Comparison of Adjectives – Definition, Types & Examples
✅ What is Comparison of Adjectives?
Comparison of adjectives is the way to show the degree or extent of a quality possessed by a noun or pronoun.
It helps us compare one thing with another or show the highest degree of quality.
🔤 Types of Comparison
There are three degrees of comparison:
- Positive Degree
- The adjective in its basic form without any comparison.
- It simply describes a quality.
- Example: tall, beautiful, fast
- Comparative Degree
- Compares two things.
- Usually formed by adding -er or using more before the adjective.
- Example: taller, more beautiful, faster
- Superlative Degree
- Compares more than two things, showing the highest degree.
- Usually formed by adding -est or using most before the adjective.
- Example: tallest, most beautiful, fastest
🧠 Rules for Forming Comparative and Superlative
Rule | Example (Positive) | Comparative | Superlative |
---|---|---|---|
For short adjectives (1 syllable), add -er / -est | tall | taller | tallest |
For adjectives ending in -e, add -r / -st | large | larger | largest |
For adjectives ending in consonant + vowel + consonant, double last consonant + er/est | big | bigger | biggest |
For adjectives with 2 or more syllables, use more / most | beautiful | more beautiful | most beautiful |
Irregular adjectives have special forms | good | better | best |
🔹 Examples:
Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
---|---|---|
small | smaller | smallest |
easy | easier | easiest |
happy | happier | happiest |
important | more important | most important |
interesting | more interesting | most interesting |
bad | worse | worst |
far | farther/further | farthest/furthest |
💡 Usage Examples:
- This book is interesting. (Positive)
- This book is more interesting than that one. (Comparative)
- This is the most interesting book I have ever read. (Superlative)
- She is tall.
- She is taller than her brother.
- She is the tallest in her class.
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