384 形容词大多可以比较,有3个比较级别(Degrees of Comparison)。形容词的原来形式称为原级(Positive Degree)。
This house is small .
He is a wise man.
I found this horse very fast .
表示一样东西或人比另一样东西或人“更……”的形容词,称为这个形容词的比较级(Comparative Degree),单音节形容词的比较级由该词加词尾-er构成。
This house is smaller than yours.These houses are smaller than those.
He is a wiser man than his father.
I found this horse faster than that.
表示在 3 个或更多的东西或人中“最……”的形容词,称为这个形容词的最高级(Superlative Degree),单音节形容词以加-est方式构成最高级。
This house is the smallest of all.These five houses are the smalles t of all.
He is the wisest man in this city.
I found this horse fastest of all.I found these horses fastest of all.
385 双音节或多音节形容词,多以前面加more的方式构成比较级,以加most的方式构成最高级。
386 还有一种比较方法,即往下比,表示“较不……”“最不……”,这时可以分别在形容词前加less或least。由less构成的比较级称为较低级(Comparative of Inferiority),以least构成的最高级称为最低级(Super-lative of Inferiority)。
387 副词也可以同样方式进行比较。
John ran fast — faster than I— the fastest of all.
He writes carefully — more carefully than I— the most carefully in class.