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4. He is a man doing no harm.

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5. Cotton is a fibre obtained from nature.

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Let’s Learn Degrees of Comparison

Adjectives depict the quality of a noun and also tell us the degree of that quality. Adjectives
of quality have three degrees: positive degree, comparative degree and superlative degree.

Positive Degree
The positive degree is the simplest form of an adjective. It is used when no comparison is
made.

For example: John is young.

Comparative Degree
The comparative degree shows the higher quality of degree when two nouns are compared.

For example: Daniel is younger than John.

Superlative Degree

The superlative degree shows the highest degree of quality when more than two nouns
are compared.

For example: Mathew is the youngest of all three.

Rememberemember
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Only adjectives of quality have degrees of comparison.

Formation of Comparative and Superlative Degrees of Adjectives

With adjectives with one syllable, we add -er to form the comparative and -est to form the
superlative. Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjectives bright brighter brightest

cleverest
clever
cleverer
older
old
oldest
When the positive degree ends with -e, we add -r to form the comparative and -st to form
the superlative.

Positive Comparative Superlative

noble nobler noblest
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