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Comparison (grammar)
Comparison is a feature in the morphology or syntax of some languages, whereby adjectives and adverbs are inflected or modified to indicate the relative degree of the property defined by the adjective or adverb.
The grammatical category associated with comparison of adjectives and adverbs is degree of comparison. The usual degrees of comparison are the positive, which simply denotes a property (as with the English words ''big'' and ''fully''); the comparative, which indicates greater degree (as ''bigger'' and ''more fully''); and the superlative, which indicates greatest degree (as ''biggest'' and ''most fully'').〔Tom McArthur, ed. (1992) ''The Oxford Companion to the English Language'', Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-214183-X〕 Some languages have forms indicating a very large degree of a particular quality (called elative in Semitic linguistics). Other languages (e.g. English) can express lesser degree, e.g. ''beautiful'', ''less beautiful'', ''least beautiful''.
==Formation of comparatives and superlatives==
Comparatives and superlatives may be formed morphologically, by inflection, as with the English and German ''-er'' and ''-(e)st'' forms, or syntactically, as with the English ''more...'' and ''most...'' and the French ''plus...'' and ''le plus...'' forms. Common adjectives and adverbs often produce irregular forms, such as ''better'' and ''best'' (from ''good'') and ''less'' and ''least'' (from ''little/few'') in English, and ''meilleur'' (from ''bon'') and ''mieux'' (from the adverb ''bien'') in French.
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