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Comparative and Superlative Adjectives - Coggle Diagram
Comparative and Superlative Adjectives
In general linguistics, the comparative is a syntactic construction that serves to express a comparison between two entities or groups of entities in quality or degree; see also comparison for an overview of the comparison, as well as positive and superlative degrees of comparison.
Comparative adjectives are used to compare a certain characteristic or quality between two or more things, animals or people.
Superlative adjectives express the maximum degree of a characteristic of an element with respect to others of the same group or condition.
Sentences With Comparative Adjectives
My house is bigger than yours.
Your grade is worse than mine.
The Pacific Ocean is deeper than the Arctic Ocean.
You are more polite than Joey.
My brother is taller than I am, but he is older too.
A rose is more beautiful than a daisy.
The Earth is larger than the moon.
The superlative is used to describe an object that is at the highest or lowest end of a quality (the tallest, the smallest, the fastest, the highest)
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The comparative is used in English to compare differences between the two objects that it modifies (larger, smaller, faster, higher).
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Here are some examples of superlative adjectives in action:
*I can't find my most comfortable jeans.
The runt of the litter is the smallest
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Jupiter is the biggest planet in our solar system.
She is the smartest girl in our class
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This is the most interesting book I have ever read
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I am the shortest person in my family
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