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  2. Comparison (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    Comparison is a feature in the morphology or syntax of some languages whereby adjectives and adverbs are rendered in an inflected or periphrastic way to indicate a comparative degree, property, quality, or quantity of a corresponding word, phrase, or clause.

  3. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    A verb together with its dependents, excluding its subject, may be identified as a verb phrase (although this concept is not acknowledged in all theories of grammar [23]). A verb phrase headed by a finite verb may also be called a predicate. The dependents may be objects, complements, and modifiers (adverbs or adverbial phrases).

  4. English adverbs - Wikipedia

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    William Bullokar wrote the earliest grammar of English, published in 1586.It includes a chapter on adverbs. His definition follows: An adverb is a part of speech joined with a verb or participle to declare their signification more expressly by such adverb: as, come hither if they wilt go forth, sometimes with an adjective: as, thus broad: & sometimes joined with another adverb: as, how soon ...

  5. German adverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    Adverb formation is simpler in German than in most other languages. An adverb is simply the uninflected form of the adjective (or participle). This holds for the positive and comparative forms. The superlative is formed with the preposition am and the ending -en, e.g. am schönsten "most beautifully".

  6. English determiners - Wikipedia

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    The superlative forms are fewest, least, most, and most respectively. [1]: 393 The plain forms can be modified with adverbs, especially very, too and so (and not can also be added). Note that unmodified much is quite rarely used in affirmative statements in colloquial English.

  7. Superlative case - Wikipedia

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    Definition: Superlatives are forms of adjectives or adverbs that express the highest or most extreme degree of a quality. Function : They denote a comparative relationship, typically among three or more entities, to identify one as the most or least within a set.

  8. Latin grammar - Wikipedia

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    The comparative form of an adverb is the same as the neuter nominative singular form of a comparative adjective and usually ends in -ius. Instead of the adjective clārior, which means "brighter", the adverb is clārius, which means "more brightly". The superlative adverb has the same base as the superlative adjective and always ends in a long -ē.

  9. English adjectives - Wikipedia

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    Here, the modifier of the colour term is an adjective (deep) rather than an adverb (deeply), which suggests that green is a noun. But the phrase occurs as the predicative complement of become and could, in principle, be modified by an adverb like very or appear in comparative form, which are typical characteristics of adjectives. [29]