The adjective. Degrees of comparison
Contents Adjective. General characteristics. Classification. The category of degrees of comparison. Divergence points. Literature. Adjective is a part of speech characterized by the following typical features:
The lexico-grammatical meaning of “attributes (of substantives)”. By attributes we mean different properties of substantives, such as their size, colour, position in space, material, psychic state of persons, etc. The morphological category of the degrees of comparison. The characteristic combinability with nouns (a beautiful girl), link verbs (…is clever), adverbs, mostly those of degree (a very clever boy), the so-called “prop word” one (the grey one). The stem-building affixes –ful, -less, -ish, -ous, -ive, -ic, un-, pre-, in-, etc. Its functions of an attribute and a predicative complement.