Read
these sentences:
1. Rama’s
mango is sweet.
2. Hari’s
mango is sweeter than Rama’s.
3. Govind’s
mango is the sweetest of all.
In sentence
1, the adjective sweet merely tells us that Rama’s mango has the quality of
sweetness, without saying how much of this quality it has.
In sentence
2, the adjective sweeter tells us that Hari’s Mango compared with Rma’s has
more of the quality of sweetness.
In sentence
3, the adjective sweetest tells us that of all these mangoes Govind’s parison. They are called the three Degrees of
Comparison.
The Adjective
sweet is said to be in Positive Degree.
The
Adjective sweeter is said to be in the Comparative Degree.
The Adjective sweetest is said to be in the Superlative Degree.
