What are the comparative & superlative forms of the adjective 'fresh'?
It is regular fresh fresher freshest
An adjective that expresses the highest or lowest degree of comparison among three or more nouns is in the ___?
Superlative. eg It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ... Comparitive is only between two things - and positive has no real comparison at all.
Identify the degree of comparison used in the following sentence. please help??!!?
The answer is B. Comparative. Anything that is "Positive" is just an adjective (describing word) for something, such as "Great", "Good", "Short", "Tall" etc. Anything that is "Superlative" is greatly emphasized to make it look unique, such as "Greatest", "Best", "Most amazing", "Shortest", "Tallest" etc. Anything that is "Comparative", such as the answer to your question, is described as being MORE than something, such as "taller", "more upset", "more amazing", "bigger" and, just like your question, "more humid". If your question was a positive comparison, then it would just be "The air is humid", and if it was a superlative, then it would say "The air is most humid". I'm not too sure about "Absolute" though, I've never come across "absolute comparison" before... but I'm pretty sure it'll be an absolute comparative if none of the other three fit! :-) Hope this helped.
What is the comparative form of nice?
There are three degree of an adjective in English grammar. These are following-Positive degree,Comparative degree andSuperlative degree.The positive degree is the base form of an adjective (like-Good). The comparative degree is higher form of a positive degree, of some quality (Like- Better; comparative degree of ‘Good’). The superlative degree expresses the highest form of an adjective (Like- Best; Superlative degree of ‘Good’).YOUR ANSWER: Comparative degree of ‘Nice’ is ‘Nicer’. And superlative degree of ‘Nice’ is ‘Nicest’.
What is difference among abstract noun, adjective and adverb in English Grammar?
All of them are the elements of Parts of Speech. Their names are given according to the function they perform in a sentence.ABSTRACT NOUNS : These are the nouns which you cannot see or touch .They have no physical existence.They expressa quality. Ex: patience, beautya state Ex: death, youthA feeling or an action Ex: pleasure , flight4. A general idea or system of thoughtEx: Maths, Kannada , English,Social studies ,psychology.Note: NOUNS have special forms to show number, and in some cases to show gender. They can’t show tense or voice. They are usually the subjects or the objects of a verb or are used with a preposition. They only ‘CASE FROM’ that they have in the possessive. Nouns have not degrees of comparison.ADJECTIVES: Words used to describe a Noun or Pronoun.1.A house should be long enoughnoun adjective2.I know a funny, little man.adj adj NounNote: ADJECTIVES:have special forms to show comparisons,they are used generally before a noun or after the verb to be. They cannot show case, tense, voice, person,only a few of them can show number.ADVERB:Word which modifies a verb, an adjective or another adverb.I: Adverb qualifying a verbHe spoke well.verb advI always face the sun.adverb verbThe sun shines brightly.Verb adverbII: Adverb qualifying an AdjectiveI am extremely tired.Prn Adverb adjectiveThe clock was too large .noun adverb adjIII: Adverb qualifying another AdverbRani walks very fast.verb adv 2 adv 1The paint has dried up very fast..verb adv2 adv1Note: ADVERBS: have all the characteristics mentioned for adjectives except that their usual position is after verbs or before adjectives.
Grammar: Why is it wrong to say that something is "more better" than something else?
Adjectives ( and sometimes even adverbs) take three forms of degrees of comparison; the Positive Degree, the Comparative Degree and the Superlative Degree.To express the comparative degree, the adjective undergoes a change - either the “-er” suffix is added to its original form ( mostly in the case of monosyllable words, like, “taller” is the comparative degree for “tall”), or the quantifier “more” is added in front of the adjective ( mostly in the case of long adjectives having two or more syllables, like, “more beautiful” is the comparative degree for the adjective, “ beautiful”).For certain words, however, there are totally new words, very different from the original adjective, which do not conform to the above rules, to express the comparative degree.E.g. “Better” is the comparative degree for “Good”“More” is the comparative degree for “Much”The rule is, you have to follow any one of the above rules, depending upon the restrictions, and no combination is allowed.So, when you say, “more better”, more is redundant here, and you are breaking the above convention of not clubbing two comparatives.Therefore the correct sentence should be:“Something is better than something else.”
Is the phrase 'much better' grammatically correct?
One school of thought says:Grammatically speaking ,‘Much’ plays double roles. It is an adjective and at times an adverb also .And similarly the word ‘better’ also plays two roles as an adjective and an adverb also. Anyhow ‘much better’ is a phrase. A heterogeneous combination apart from the clutches for degrees of comparison. Another school of thought says , ‘better’ is an adjective where as ‘much’ is an adverb. The total combined effect is making the thing ‘superb’. And now the third is the technique of ‘Usage’. All have universally accepted and are able to use it . Hence even if called away from the norms of grammar it is correct.