Talking About Degree of Comparison

A degree of comparison is a form of adjective that is used to compare a person or thing possessing the same quality with another. It is related to the adjective or adverb in a sentence. The Collins Dictionary defines the ‘degree of comparison’ as “the listing of the positive, comparative, and superlative forms of an adjective or adverb.” In other words, it can be said that one can use the degree of comparison to make a comparison between nouns having comparable quality or qualities.
There are three degrees of comparison: positive degree, comparative degree, and superlative degree. We apply certain grammatical patterns or rules to signify different degrees of comparison in a sentence; the pattern applied for one degree is different from the others. Let’s take a closer look at them one by one!