Question

Exercise 2
Pick out the adjectives and name the degree of comparison of each.
For eg. Make less noise.
adjective- less
less- Comparative Degree
1. The poor woman had seen happier days.
2. That child has a slight cold.
3. Hari is the idlest boy in the class.
4. No news is good news.
5. Solomon was one of the wisest man.

Answer 1

Answer:

happier - comparative degree

slight - first one

eldest - superlative degree

good - first one

wisest - superlative degree

Answer 2

⚾️ Here are the adjectives:

1. The poor woman had seen happier days.

• Happier- Comparative degree

2. That child has a slight cold.

• Slight - Positive degree

3. Hari is the idlest boy in the class.

• Idlest - Superative degree

4. No news is good news.

• Good - Positive degree

5. Solomon was one of the wisest man

• Wisest - Superlative degree

⚾️ Grammer bites:

First of all, here are some sentences:

1. Bear is a large animal.
2. Elephant is larger than bear.
3. Blue whale is largest of all$.$

In sentence (1), large simply tells that bear is large without being compared to anyone. In sentence (2), larger tells that Elephant is taller in comparison with bear. In sentence (3), largest tells that blue whale is the largest of all other organisms.

❇ Thus, here we can see changes in between the forms of adjectives used for comparing the subjects. Here, large is in positive degree, larger is in comparative degree and largest is in Superlative degree.

• Positive degree (without any comparison)
• Comparitive degree (comparison between two)
• Superlative degree (comparison among 3 or more)

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