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Degrees of Comparison of Adjectives. Read the following sentences. 1. Yatin is strong. 2. Amit is stronger than Yatin. 3. Pravin is the strongest of all. In sentence (i) the Adjective 'strong' is - Mathematics [गणित]

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Degrees of Comparison of Adjectives. Read the following sentences.

  1. Yatin is strong.
  2. Amit is stronger than Yatin.
  3. Pravin is the strongest of all.

In sentence (i) the Adjective 'strong' is in its simple form. It is called Positive Degree. 

In sentence (ii) the Adjective 'stronger' refers to a higher degree, when there is a comparison of two nouns. It is called Comparative Degree. (-er is added to the basic adjective.)

In sentence (iii) the adjective 'strongest' refers to the highest degree of comparison of one with more than two nouns. It is called Superlative Degree (-est is added to the basic adjective.)

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