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Friday, December 2, 2011

LEARNING DEGREES OF CHANGE

Degrees of conversion


Positive to Superlative


Read the following sentence:-

Positive:-      No other boy in the class is so wise as he.
Superlative:- He is the wisest  boy in the class.
Positive:-      No other player in the team was so tall as Ram.
Superlative:- Ram was the tallest player in the team.
Positive:-       No other king in India was so  famous as Akbar.
Superlative:- Akbar was the most famous king India

structure:-

Positive:-     no other+noun+ext.+verb+so+positive degree+as+noun/pronoun.
Superlative:-subject(last noun/pronoun)+verb+the+superlative degree+noun+ext(after no other).

noun after no other  will be singular .so the verb after no other will be singular.

Read the following sentence:-

Positive:-       Very few boys in the class are so tall as he.
Superlative:- He is one of the tallest boys in the class.
Positive:-      Very few girls in the group were so beautiful as Rina.
Superlative:- Rina was one of  the most beautiful girls in the group.
Positive:-     Very few men in the village are so tall as you.
Superlative:-You are one of the tallest men in the village. 

structure:-

Positive:-       very few +noun+ext+verb+so+positive degree+as+noun/pronoun.
Superlative:-  subject(noun/pronoun)+verb+one of the +superlative degree+noun+ext.

the noun after very few/one of the+superlative degree will be plural number.The verb after very few +noun will be plural.

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