Talk:Comparison (grammar)/Archive 1

Merge?

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Following this discussion, pages were not merged. Cnilep (talk) 04:19, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

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I think this article should be merged into Comparative

I agree--some of this should be covered in Comparative, and some should be in Adjective

I agree also. FilipeS 16:56, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

I strongly disagree. They should not be merged because they are different concepts. Degree of comparison actually means any one of the three degrees used to compare an adjective or adverb: positive, comparative or superlative. The comparative you wish to merge this article with is only one of the degrees of comparison, and the superlative is another degree of comparison. The positive is the 'straight' form of an adjective or adverb, the original degree if you like, in the normal sense such as "good", "great", or "comfortable". Neither of the three degrees are therefore identical with one another and all three degrees should not all be under comparative.

The article actually tries to explain this. It does need work on it though. 79.74.221.61 (talk) 01:09, 10 January 2008 (UTC). This was me, sorry, somehow got signed out. Dieter Simon (talk) 17:07, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

I have now done some editing and it looks better. Dieter Simon (talk) 18:16, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Totally Disagree. 'Degree of Comparison' is too broad for someone who needs to use the article as it is now. mÆniac ^Ask! 18:58, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

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Question

Can some expert comment if it is alright to say "one of the best paintings in the world"? Can a superlative be in the plural form?

Yes, it's absolutely fine and quite common. 84.70.36.168 15:46, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Who can please give me the degrees of comparison for the following: superior calm happy powerful —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.54.202.102 (talk) 10:24, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

More superior, calmer, happier, more powerful: It is usual to use the adverb more before an adjective with more than two syllables (superior, powerful). In shorter adjective the suffix -er will be fine. An adjective ending in -y requires a vowel change to -ier. Dieter Simon (talk) 21:45, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Title etc.

I don't know why we need the "three" in the title. "Degree of comparison" seems like the right title; I will move. I don't think it makes sense to merge into "comparative" since after all we also have the superlative, the elative, etc. --Macrakis 23:06, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Merge...

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Following this discussion Degrees of comparison was merged to Comparison (grammar). Positive (linguistics) was redirected to Comparison (grammar). Cnilep (talk) 04:35, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

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With Comparison (grammar)? And also, if not with comparative and superlative, then at least with the tiny Positive (linguistics)? Victor Yus (talk) 12:14, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

 Done And all the above comments are moved from the talk page of the merged article, namely Talk:Degree of comparison. Victor Yus (talk) 12:30, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

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"better" is the comparative; "best" is the superlative. What designator is used for "good"? I vaguely remember it had a name but I don't remember what it is. Could it be "declarative"? Love26 (talk) 15:42, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

I'm not quite sure why this article is tagged as not being globalized. It isn't, so in that respect I think the tag is correct, but the article itself is on an aspect of the English language and so shouldn't be globalized.

I also think the last paragraph here does contain original research to the extent that the writer is attempting to "solve" this particular grammar dispute. Or at least it comes across that way.

Anteriorlobe (talk) 23:30, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

I came to this article to find out more about the differing systems of comparison in different languages. Did I find that? Nope, it's all about English grammar. English isn't alone in having comparison as a grammatical feature, so it's not that odd that one would expect more from this article. This article really could become more globalized. 213.112.67.196 (talk) 20:49, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

more Cretaceous

It is a trivial matter to disprove the sentence "nothing can be more Cretaceous ... than anything else". Take a look at these search results from Google Books. Some of them are clear counterexamples. One should not let NOR prevent such simple tests of the validity of statements. DCDuring (talk) 23:01, 11 August 2012 (UTC)