1. What are the types of comparasion in english ?
Answer :
Comparison is a feature in the grammar of some languages, whereby adjectives and adverbs are inflected or modified to produce forms which indicate the relative degree of the designated properties.
The grammatical category associated with comparison of adjectives and adverbs is degree of comparison. The usual degrees of comparison are the positive, which simply denotes a property (as with the English words big and fully); the comparative, which indicates greater degree (as bigger and more fully); and the superlative, which indicates greatest degree (as biggest and most fully).[1] Some languages have forms indicating a very large degree of a particular quality (called elative in Semitic linguistics).
The comparison of adverbs in English
There are three forms:
- positive
- comparative
- superlative
- comparative
- superlative
A - Comparison with -er/-est
hard - harder - (the) hardest
We use -er/-est with the following adverbs:
1) all adverbs with one syllable
| positive | comperative | superlative |
|---|---|---|
| fast | faster | fastest |
| high | higher | highest |
1) the adverb early
| positive | comperative | superlative |
|---|---|---|
| early | earlier | earliest |
B - Comparison with more - most
adverbs ending on -ly(except: early)
| positive | comperative | superlative |
|---|---|---|
| carefully | more carefully | (the) most carefully |
C - Irregular adverbs
| positive | comperative | superlative |
|---|---|---|
| well | better | best |
| badly | worse | worst |
| much | more | most |
| little | less | least |
| far | farther further | farthest furthest |
ATTENTION!
In informal English some adverbs are used without -ly (e.g. cheap, loud, quick).
There are two forms of comparison possible, depending on the form of the adverb:
cheaply - more cheaply - most cheaply
cheap - cheaper - cheapest
Sumber : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_(grammar)
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/grammar/adverb_steig.htm
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