What is a DEGREE OF COMPARISON ?
              Adjectives change in form to show comparison,they are called Degree Of Comparison.

Type of Degree Of Comparison
POSITIVE DEGREE
COMPARATIVE DEGREE
SUPERLATIVE DEGREE


Example :
              John is a tall boy.
              John is taller than Ancy.
              John is tallest of them all.
In the first sentence it explains only that, John is a tall boy. Here John is not compared with any others. In such cases, when adjective is used with out any comparison to other nouns we call it as POSITIVE DEGREE.

In the second sentence the adjective is used for comparison between two people, such cases when adjective is used for comaprison of two person,thing we call it as COMPARATIVE DEGREE
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  • In Comparative Degree use 'than' after the adjectives.
                  taller than
                  greater than
  • In third sentence the comparison is between more than two people,such case we say it as SUPERLATIVE DEGREE.

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