DEGREES OF COMPARISON

 COMPARISON - Is a feature in the morphology of some languages whereby adjectives and adverbs are rendered in an inflected or periphrastic way to indicate a comparative degree, property quality or quantity of a corresponding word or phrase. A superlative construction expresses the greatest quality, quantity, or degree relative to all other comparators.

The usual degrees of comparison are the positive, which simply denotes a property (as with the English words big and fully); the comparative, which indicates greater degrees (as bigger and more fully); and the superlative, which indicates greatest degree (as biggest and most fully)

The comparative degrees are frequently associated with adjectives and adverbs because these words take 

er-suffix or modifying word more or less. (e.g , faster, more intelligent, less waste full).

Comparison can also however, appear when no adjective or adverb is present, for instance with nouns (e.g more men than women). However, the usage of the word than between nouns simply denotes a comparison made and not degree of comparison comparing the intensity or extent of the subjects.

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