Degrees of comparison

(Trappe van vergelyking)


What are degrees of comparison?

  • An adjective of quality changes its form when it's used to compare one noun to another. This is called degrees of comparison of an adjective.

  • There are three degrees of comparison:

  1. The positive degree - is used to refer to one person, object or place without making any comparison.

  2. The comparative degree - is used to compare two people, objects or places.

  3. The superlative degree - is used to compare more than two people, objects or places.