| Jean-Pons-Victor Lecoutz de Levizac - French language - 1828 - 466 pages
...DEGREES OF SIGNIFICATION OF THE ADJECTIVE. Grammarians commonly reckon three degrees of comparison ; the positive, the comparative, and the superlative. The positive is the adjective expressing the quality of an object, without any increase, or diminution, as beau, belle. EXERCISE.... | |
| Joseph F. A. Boeuf - French language - 1829 - 274 pages
...DEGREES OF SIGNIFICATION OF THB ADJECTIVE. Grammarians commonly reckon three degrees of signification ; the positive, the comparative, and the superlative, The positive is the adjective expressing the quality of an object, without any increase or diminution ; as, bavu, handsome ; grand,... | |
| Saint Phorien André - French language - 1830 - 518 pages
...termination. OF THE DEGREES OF SIGNIFICATION OF THE ADJECTIVES. There are three degrees of signification, the positive, the comparative, and the superlative. The positive is the adjective expressing the quality of an object, without any increase or diminution, as beau, belle (fine). The... | |
| Alain Auguste Victor de Fivas - 1840 - 328 pages
...consens ces f. OF THE DEGREES OF COMPARISON. There are commonly reckoned three degrees of comparison; the Positive, the Comparative, and the Superlative. The Positive is the adjective itself, merely expressing the quality of an object, without any comparison ; as, Un enfant sage et studieux.... | |
| P. Droz - 1842 - 262 pages
...pernicieux (g) maxime, f sensible woman. tensé (a) OF THE DIFFERENT DEGREES OF SIGNIFICATION IN ADJECTIVES. There are three degrees of signification in adjectives...the positive, the comparative, and the superlative. (a) The positive is the adjective without comparison : Mon livre est beau. My book is beautiful. comparatives,... | |
| George Gerard (professor of French.) - French language - 1848 - 408 pages
...ladies impartial ? 80 DEGREES OF SIGNIFICATION OF THE ADJECTIVE. There are three degrees of comparison ; the positive, the comparative, and the superlative. The positive, is the adjective without increase or diminution ; as, beau, belle, constant, constante. The comparative, draws a comparison... | |
| Jean Pons Victor Lecoutz de Levizac - 1850 - 566 pages
...m. DEGREES OF SIGNIFICATION IN THE ADJECTIVE. Adjectives have three degrees of signification, viz. the positive, the comparative, and the superlative. The positive is the adjective itself, without any increase or diminution, as beau, belle, &c. A child gentle, aimable, and docile, is beloved... | |
| André Sears - 1850 - 424 pages
...A Grecian chief. guerrier, m. 16. DEGREES or COMPARISON. There are three degrees of comparison, — the positive, the comparative, and the superlative. The positive is the adjective itself: — sage, wise. 17. The comparative is formed by placing plus, more; moins, less; aussi, as, before... | |
| G. Cambier - 1851 - 342 pages
...Degrees of Signification of the Adjective. Grammarians commonly reckon three degrees of signification : the positive, the comparative, and the superlative. The positive is the adjective expressing the quality of a substantive, without decrease or diminution ; as, an ambitious man, un... | |
| Leonhard Schmitz - 1852 - 174 pages
...highest degree, every language has some means of expressing these degrees. Their number is three — the Positive, the Comparative, and the Superlative. The positive is the adjective in its fundamental form — as bonus, good; felix, happy : fortis, brave. 71. When a comparison is... | |
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