 In English the adjective is not varied on account of gender, number, or case. Thus we say, "A careless boy ; careless girls."* The only variation which it admits, is that of the degrees of comparison. There are three degrees of comparison; the positive,...  New Grammar of French Grammars - Page 20by Alain Auguste Victor de Fivas - 1847 - 182 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Giuseppe Rampini - 1852 - 212 pages
...call in grammar degrees of comparison, the various ways by which these differences are marked. 60. There are commonly reckoned three degrees of comparison:...the Positive, the Comparative, and the Superlative. 61. The positive state expresses the quality of an object without any increase or diminution;; as,... | |
 | Leonhard Schmitz - 1852 - 174 pages
...highest degree, every language has some means of expressing these degrees. Their number is three — the Positive, the Comparative, and the Superlative. The positive is the adjective in its fundamental form — as bonus, good; felix, happy : fortis, brave. 71. When a comparison is... | |
 | Thomas Goodwin (headmaster.) - 1854 - 176 pages
...In their other cases they follow the declension of bonus. COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES. Adjectives have three degrees of comparison — the positive, the...and the superlative. The positive is the adjective in its simple state, as tristis. The comparative is formed from the first case of the positive which... | |
 | Home grammar - 1855 - 96 pages
...Comparison is the comparing of one thing with another, and shows us the differences between them. There are three degrees of comparison, — the Positive, the Comparative, and the Superlative. The positive degree shows the thing just as it is without making it either larger or less. The comparative degree... | |
 | Goold Brown - 1856 - 144 pages
...variation of the adjective, to express quality in different degrees ; as, hard, harder, hardest. There are three degrees of comparison ; the positive, the comparative, and the superlative. The positive degree is that which is expressed by the adjective in its simple form ; as, hard, soft, good. The comparative... | |
 | Goold Brown - English language - 1856 - 136 pages
...variation of the adjective, to express quality in different degrees ; as, hard, harder, hardest. There are three degrees of comparison ; the positive, the comparative, and the superlative. The positive degree is that which is expressed by the adjective in its simple form; as, hard, soft, good. The comparative... | |
 | Théodore Charles comte de Laporte - French language - 1857 - 652 pages
...SIGNIFICATION OF THE ADJECTIVES. 194. There are three degrees of significatien in the adjectives ; the positive, the comparative, and the superlative. The Positive is the adjective itself, expressing the quality of the noun without any increase or diminutien ; as, Merit is modest, Le merite... | |
 | Goold Brown - English language - 1857 - 120 pages
...sixth, seventh, &c. MODIFICATIONS. Adjectives have, commonly, no modifications but comparison. There are three degrees of comparison; the positive, the comparative, and the superlative. The comparative degree is that which exceeds the positive; as, harder, softer, better. The positive degree... | |
 | William James Champion - 1860 - 104 pages
...some mise and learned men ; not savans, prüden«. THE COMPABISON OF ADJECTIVES. There are usually reckoned three degrees of comparison, the POSITIVE,...and the SUPERLATIVE. The POSITIVE is the adjective in its simple form ; as un homme prudent, a discreet man ; les femmes savantes, learned women. The... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1862 - 304 pages
...propriety, an old man, an old woman, an old house ; old men, old women, old houses. Adjectives have three degrees of comparison — the positive, the comparative, and the superlative. The positive degree is used when we assert that a certain quality belongs to some noun ; as, ' the table is long... | |
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