Lesson 30: Grammar Review Flashcards
In adjectives and adverbs, there are ___.
degrees of comparison
The degrees of comparison are:
positive, comparitive, superlative
The ___ is descriptive.
positive
The ___ implies a comparison a comparison among more than two persons or things.
comparitive
The ___ implies a comparison among more than two persons or things.
superlative
In English, many positive adjectives can be changed into comparisons by adding ___ and changed into superlatives by adding ___.
-er; -est
Give an exampole of degrees of comparison in English using the adjective great.
great, greater, greatest
In English, other adjectives and adverbs are compared by means of the words ___.
more and most
The Latin comparitive is formed by adding ___ and ___ to the stem.
-ior; -ius
The Latin comparitive is declined like a regular ___ noun.
3rd declension
The superlative adjective is formed by adding ___ to the stem.
-issimus, -rimus, or -limus
The superlative adjective is declined like ___.
bonus -a -um
Two nouns or pronouns compared using the adverb quam must be ___.
in the same case
A comparitive adjective used to indicate degree rather than comparison means ___.
rather, too, more than the average
