Talk:Degree of comparison

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Contents 1 Merge? 2 Question 3 Title etc. 4 Equative degree

[edit] Merge?

I think this article should be merged into Comparative

I agree--some of this should be covered in Comparative, and some should be in Adjective

I agree also. FilipeS 16:56, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

I strongly disagree. They should not be merged because they are different concepts. Degree of comparison actually means any one of the three degrees used to compare an adjective or adverb: positive, comparative or superlative. The comparative you wish to merge this article with is only one of the degrees of comparison, and the superlative is another degree of comparison. The positive is the 'straight' form of an adjective or adverb, the original degree if you like, in the normal sense such as "good", "great", or "comfortable". Neither of the three degrees are therefore identical with one another and all three degrees should not all be under comparative.

The article actually tries to explain this. It does need work on it though. 79.74.221.61 (talk) 01:09, 10 January 2008 (UTC). This was me, sorry, somehow got signed out. Dieter Simon (talk) 17:07, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

I have now done some editing and it looks better. Dieter Simon (talk) 18:16, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Question

Can some expert comment if it is alright to say "one of the best paintings in the world"? Can a superlative be in the plural form?

Yes, it's absolutely fine and quite common. 84.70.36.168 15:46, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Title etc.

I don't know why we need the "three" in the title. "Degree of comparison" seems like the right title; I will move. I don't think it makes sense to merge into "comparative" since after all we also have the superlative, the elative, etc. --Macrakis 23:06, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Equative degree

I think I have read about some language having a degree of comparison called the equative and that its function is to tell that something has the same degree as something else of a feature: as large as the house, as weak as this. Does anyone know if I'm right about its existence and function? (Then please add the information about it). 130.236.119.139 11:16, 1 October 2007 (UTC)