Positive Degree of Adjectives with Examples

In our session, we would be discussing the words, adjectives or adverbs that have a positive degree. But before that, we need to understand what do we mean by Positive Degree.

The session would be helpful in making you understand the difference between the words that are based on a different degree. You would be having a good command of the language and it will help you in drafting some of the best content. When you become familiar with the new concepts it is quite easy to understand the way they work.

The Positive degree is the uncompared base form of an adjective or adverb. For example in phrase “Jack is tall”, the adjective tall is in positive degree. Here we are not comparing Jack with any other person, we are just stating a fact.

In English, you would find that there are three degrees of comparison:

• The Positive Degree – This offers no comparison.(Examples: rich, pretty, handsome, good)
• The Comparative Degree – This shows the greater or lesser degree. (Examples: richer, prettier, more handsome, better)
• The Superlative Degree – This shows the greatest or least degree. (Examples: richest, prettiest, most handsome, best)

Examples of Positive Degree of Adjectives

Following is a list of comparative and superlative forms of positive degree adjectives.

Here we have some sentence examples for positive degree of adjectives. For better identification words have been italicized.

• The pen is light.
• Mount Everest is very high.
• Mariana Trench is very deep.
• Mango is sweet.
• Lead is a heavy metal.
• Alex is a strong boy.
• Jack is a tall boy.
• India is a powerful country.
• She is very beautiful.
• cheetah is fast.

Conclusion:

You have been learning a lot of concepts with EnglishBix. With this blog, you would be getting good knowledge of the positive degree of adjectives and how they can be used to build sentences. These positive degrees of adjectives are very useful while drafting interesting content.