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I think I have read about some language having a degree of comparison called the equative and that its function is to tell that something has the same degree as something else of a feature: as large as the house, as weak as this. Does anyone know if I'm right about its existence and function? (Then please add the information about it). 130.236.119.139 11:16, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
That's the same as positive.
eg in German
positive : as long as : so lang wie
comparative: longer than : länger als
superlative : longest : am längsten
Gauravjuvekar (
talk) 05:22, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
The introduction uses comparatives like "greater" and "most" to describe comparatives (like "greater" and "most"). Is there a way to avoid this kind of circularity? Augurar ( talk) 17:34, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
Is "less good" a comparative? "least good" a superlative? Are their languages in which these negative comparatives have their own inflections? Is there a proper term for them? 130.195.200.87 ( talk) 14:17, 13 April 2013 (UTC) User:Furius
I just wanted to draw the attention of anyone interested to this thread Talk:Preamble_to_the_United_States_Constitution#More_perfecter.2C_yet_no_more_gradabler that probably should have been started on this page in the first place. -- Mudd1 ( talk) 12:03, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
The article lead starts:
and later says:
The lead should reflect both, but I'm not sure how to phrase it. Ideas? -- Macrakis ( talk) 15:13, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
...are English comparatives and superlatives made with -er and -est, respectively? Today I had a talk with someone on
Template talk:Infobox element. I claimed the parameter "most stable isotopes" should be changed into "stablest isotopes", because that's what I learnt at school. The user in question pointed out that
Wiktionary offered both possibilities, and that stablest sounded unnatural to him.
To be exact: I learnt that adjectives of two syllables, ending in -le, -er, -ow, -y, and -some get synthetic comparative forms: stable - stabler - stablest, bitter - bitterer - bitterest, shallow - shallower - shallowest, happy - happier - happiest and handsome - handsomer - handsomest. All other two syllable adjectives get more and most. Now this article doesn't give strict rules, only the vague observation that longer words 'typically' get analytic comparitives and superlatives more often. Not only do there seems to be two possibilities for many words, the example they give (polite - politer - politest or polite - more polite - most polite) falls outside the criteria I just mentioned. The
English grammar article is even vaguer.
A category in which this article is included offers some clarity: it belongs to the "disputes in the English language". Okay, but what is exactly disputed? Which are the opposing views on the subject, which are the conflicting advices on the issue? Is there any difference between various forms of English? Are Americans likelier to say "more likely"? I hope someone can explain this issue to me, a poor non-native speaker who has so far relied on the rigid pedantry he received in secondary school...
Steinbach (
talk) 22:44, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
This article and Comparative and Superlative overlap considerably, presenting much of the same material redundantly, or with slight variations. Either we should reorganize the articles to be less redundant (in particular removing the excessive detail in this article), or we should merge them into one. I suggest we start by merging into one, and only then decide if it is worth splitting off information into subarticles. -- Macrakis ( talk) 17:54, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
I strongly agree — Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.211.41.90 ( talk) 17:21, 6 August 2016 (UTC)
I just wanna know what afrikaans word and mean of Comparison?? 41.114.215.235 ( talk) 17:25, 9 June 2022 (UTC)