How to Change Comparative Degree into Superlative Degree?

How to Change Comparative to Superlative Degree?

Comparatives and superlatives are special types of adjectives used when comparing two or more things. The most difficult thing when using comparative and superiority is: to make sure we write them correctly, but with a little practice comparatives and superlatives things can be mastered quickly.

In this post we will review comparative and what are the superlative, how these adjectives can be formed in the right way and how they can be used effectively in one sentence.

What is A Comparative Degree?

Comparative adjective is a term used to describe a noun in comparison to another noun. We usually think of the word 'er' as big or small, but they can be a little more complicated than that.

The way we construct comparative adjectives is based on the number of adjective syllables and whether the adjective ends with the letter 'y'.

Noun (subject) + verb + comparative degree of adjective + than + noun (object).

The 2nd (second) item of comparison can be omitted if it is clear from the context (final example below).

Examples:

• My room is larger than hers.
• This pen is smaller than the one I lost.
• Your horse runs faster than Jim's horse.
• The spider flew higher than the roof.
• Jack and Alex are both my friends, but I like Alex better. ("than Jack" is understood)

What is A Superlative Degree?

Superlative adjectives are words used to describe a noun when compared to two or more nouns with the highest or lowest degree. Think: big, bigger, biggest, or small, smaller, smallest. 

Like the comparative degree of adjectives, it’s not always as easy as adding ‘est’. The number of syllables and whether the adjective ends with the letter 'y' also helps us determine how to create a comparative degree of adjective.

Noun (subject) + verb + the + superlative degree of adjective + noun (object).

The group being compared can be omitted if it is clear from the context (final example below).

Examples:

• My room is the largest one in our neighborhood.
• This is the smallest bag I've ever seen.
• Your horse ran the fastest of any horse in the race.
• We all threw our spiders at the same time. My spider flew the highest. ("of all the spiders" is understood)

How to Change Comparative into Superlative Degree?

Rule 1:
Subject + verb + the + Comparative from of superlative + next part of others.

• Comparative: Rohit is better than any other player in the team.
• Superlative: Rohit is the best player in the team.
• Note – If there is a plural noun after other, of all is placed after the superlative.
• Comparative: She is bigger than of all girls.
• Superlative: She is the tallest of all girls.

Rule 2:
Rules for converting Comparative to Superlative with Than most other/ than few other:

Subject + verb + one of the + Comparative degree from of superlative + most other/ few next part of others.

• Comparative: Vatican City isn't smaller than most other countries in the world.
• Superlative: Vatican City isn't 1 of the smallest countries in the world.
• Comparative: Valor isn't bigger than most other cities in India.
• Superlative: Valor isn't one of the biggest cities in India.

More Examples of Comparative into Superlative Degree:

• Comparative – He is better than all other boys in the class.
• Superlative – He is the best of all boys in the in the class. 
• Comparative – Smith is stronger than any other boy in this house.
• Superlative – Smith is the strongest of all boys in the house. 
• Comparative – My grandfather is older than any other member of our family. 
• Superlative – My grandfather is the oldest of all members of our family. 
• Comparative – South Africa isn't richer than any other subcontinent on this planet.
• Superlative – South Africa isn't the richest of all subcontinent's on this planet.
• Comparative – Turtles are slower than other animals.
• Superlative – Turtles are slowest than other animals.
• Comparative – Lily isn't more beautiful than most other flowers.
• Superlative – Lily isn't one of the most beautiful flowers.
• Comparative – Ghee isn't healthier than many other foods.
• Superlative – Ghee isn't one of the healthiest foods.
• Comparative – The dog isn't more useful than many other animals.
• Superlative – The dog isn't one of the most useful animals.

How to Form Comparative And Superlative Degrees?

The comparative form of an adjective is used to compare two people or things (eg he is taller than me). Again, when superlative is used to compare a person or thing to other members of their group (eg he was the tallest boy in the class).

Depending on the base adjective the adjectives make their comparative and superlative form in different ways.

Conclusion

There was a look at how you can change the degree of a word in English. We do this when we want to compare things in English and when we want to specify a quality or amount of feeling.

Many common words in English can be converted to comparative and superlative words by combining -er and -est at the end of the word. However, this is not true for every degree word in English, as we have seen.