Questions tagged [degree-of-comparison]
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Equivalent of "former" and "latter" for more than 2 items
Former and latter are valid only when there are two choices.
If I have a list of more than two items, is there an elegant way to say the first one or the last one?
The English Chicken
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The superlative of sincere
Is the usage sincerest gratitude wrong?Can we use such in acknowledgements?
Blessytha
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Is this superlative degree because of usage of most or is it positive degree?
Most of the rare plants are found in silent valley.
Am confused as to which degree this sentence belongs, as it has the word 'most' which is superlative, but also the adjective, 'rare' is in positive degree.
miracles
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Has the illogical "three times bigger" replaced "three times as big" in common usage?
If A is one time bigger than B, it is equal to 2B. So if A is three times bigger than B, it is equal to 4B. Yet I am seeing "two times bigger" to mean "twice as large" in more and more places.
Any insights?
Joel Orr
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Changing of degrees
Consider this sentence:
This is the best book I have ever read.
Now if I transform this into a sentence and use positive degree as
Never have I read a book as good as this.
Is this sentence correct and complete or do I have to add 'one' at the…
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