Grammatical rules about usage of Adjectives





As I intend to share knowledge abount English Grammar; this is one more piece of endeavor in this respect.

Eight important grammatical rules about usage of Adjectives

1.  Comparative degree of an adjective is followed by than’

He is taller than I.

However when selection of one out of the two things/objects is required, adjective of comparative degree will be preceded by ‘the’ and ‘of’ will be used in place of ‘than’.

He is the taller of the two

Fatima is the cleverer of the two.

 

2.              Latin comparatives are followed by ‘to’

superior, senior, junior, inferior are the latin comparatives.

He is senior to me.

Farhat is junior to Mujahid.

This apparatus is inferior to that of mine.

He feels himself superior to others.

 

3.    Comparative cannot be used with ‘comparatively’; instead a positive degree is simply used in this case.

 

I bought comparatively easier book. (Incorrect)

I bought comparatively easy book. (Correct)

 

4.   If the two objects are compared with each other the latter term of comparison must exclude the former by using ‘any other’

 

Gold is more precious than any other metal.

(metal is the term of comparison thus it is placed at latter position and excluded from former position).

 

Balochistan is larger than any other province in Pakistan.

(province is the term of comparison thus it is placed at latter position and excluded from former position).

 

5.  Double comparatives and double superlatives are not allowed.

 

This book is more better than that. (Incorrect)

This book is much better than that. (Correct)

This book is the most best of all. (Incorrect)

This book is the best of all. (Correct)

 

6.           Adjective of superlative degree is preceded by ‘the’.

 

Islamabad is the most beautiful city in Pakistan.

Balochistan is the largest of all the provinces in Pakistan.

Masood is the tallest boy in our team.

 

7.  When two qualities of the same person or thing are compared, the comparative is formed by using ‘more’ with the positive.

He is more industrious than intelligent.

Ghafoor is more clever than honest. 

 

8.    The positive and superlative degree cannot be mixed up in the same sentence.

Nishat is the best and wise of all the girls. (Incorrect)

Nishat is the best and the wisest of all the girls. (Correct)

 

He is the most intelligent and honest man. (Incorrect)

He is the most intelligent and the most honest man. (Correct)


This attempt of explaining the grammatical rules about usage of Adjectives is aimed at guiding the students of English language to help them improve their command on right use of English language.

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