| 单词 | positive degree |
| 例句 | When the object modified or described by the adjective is not compared with another, the first or positive degree is used. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z "I am in the positive degree of happiness," she said, cheerily. The Angel of the Gila: A Tale of Arizona 2011-10-16T02:00:17.623Z Enemies of the positive degree, they lavish with prodigality the words often, very much, exceedingly, etc. Fraternal Charity To return, however, to the word better; no absolute positive degree is found in any of the allied languages, and in none of the allied languages is there found any comparative form of good. A Handbook of the English Language What is the positive degree, the comparative, the superlative? Practical Grammar and Composition She could not have defined it in a more positive degree; but even now, when all was confusion and disintegration, she was conscious of its being there, an untouched treasure of resources. The Street Called Straight The positive degree expresses the quality of an object without any increase or diminution; as, good, wise, great. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Unfamiliar describes truths, therefore descriptive; not inflected for number; compared by prefixing more and most; positive degree; modifies truths. An English Grammar Good was without a comparative, better and best had no positive degree. A Handbook of the English Language The comparative and superlative degrees may be formed by adding the syllables er and est to the positive degree. Composition-Rhetoric Amid these contentions of celestial minds it will be safest to content ourselves with one or two plain observations in the humble positive degree, without hurrying into high and final comparatives and superlatives. Studies in Literature Young is a common adjective, of the positive degree, compared regularly, young, younger, youngest: and relates to man; according to Rule 9th, which says, "Adjectives relate to nouns or pronouns." The Grammar of English Grammars When the precedes adjectives of the positive degree used substantively, it marks their use as common and plural nouns when they refer to persons, and as singular and abstract when they refer to qualities. An English Grammar According to one it is the positive degree with the addition of st; according to the other, it is the comparative degree with the addition only of t. A Handbook of the English Language This is a great exaggeration; and yet it is true that the system militated in quite positive degree against the productivity of the several white classes. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime The two latter phrases were dark with theology, and even the positive degree of condemnation had an ecclesiastical flavour. Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Poor is a common adjective, of the positive degree, compared regularly, poor, poorer, poorest: and relates to nature; according to Rule 9th, which says, "Adjectives relate to nouns or pronouns." The Grammar of English Grammars These are properly the only degrees, though the simple, uninflected form is usually called the positive degree. An English Grammar The positive degree preceded by the adjective more, is equivalent to the comparative form—e.g., more wise = wiser. A Handbook of the English Language The positive degree is that which is expressed by the adjective in its simple form. The Grammar of English Grammars The positive degree is that which is expressed by the adjective in its simple form: as, "An elephant is large; a mouse, small; a lion, fierce, active, bold, and strong." The Grammar of English Grammars Here is indeed a comparison, but it is altogether in the positive degree, and needs no other name. The Grammar of English Grammars The reasoning which would make the positive degree to be no degree, would also make the nominative case, or the casus rectus of the Latins, to be no case. The Grammar of English Grammars What, in the first sentence, is erroneously called "the positive state," in the second and the third, is called, "the positive degree;" and this again, in the fourth, is falsely identified with "the simple word." The Grammar of English Grammars The positive degree denotes the simple form of an adjective without any variation of meaning. The Grammar of English Grammars Or those who will take the word simply as an adjective, may say, "Many is a pronominal adjective, of the positive degree, compared many, more, most, and relating to persons understood." The Grammar of English Grammars What a preëminence is here! and yet the form of the adjective is only that of the positive degree. The Grammar of English Grammars Good is a common adjective, of the positive degree; compared irregularly, good, better, best. The Grammar of English Grammars The positive degree is that which is expressed by the adjective in its simple form. The Grammar of English Grammars The positive degree is that which is expressed by the adjective in its simple form. The Grammar of English Grammars Evil is a common adjective, of the positive degree; compared irregularly, bad, evil, or ill, worse, worst. The Grammar of English Grammars False is a common adjective, of the positive degree; compared regularly, false, falser, falsest. The Grammar of English Grammars The positive degree is that which is expressed by the adjective in its simple form. The Grammar of English Grammars |
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