One of the most vivid memories of my early childhood is of the two men - Change the degree of adjectives?
1 Answer
- A vivid memory of my early childhood is of the two men
- An even more vivid memory of my early childhood is one about the two men.
Explanation:
The sample sentence uses "most vivid" -- an adjective in the
The changes use the adjective "vivid" in the positive and the comparative degrees.
The "degree" of an adjective is its degree of comparison.
- Positive
#-# speaking of one thing only - Comparative
#-# comparing two things - Superlative
#-# comparing more than two things
Examples of adjectives used in these degrees:
The adjective "tall"
- Jeffrey is tall. (positive)
- Richard is taller. (comparative)
- Franklin is tallest. (superlatives)
The adjective "intelligent"
- Simon is intelligent.
- David is more intelligent.
- Joseph is the most intelligent.
This sentence is from Alice in Wonderland:
"Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice (She was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English)."
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
http://www.liarsleague.com/liars_league/2015/11/curiouser-curiouser-tuesday-10th-november.html
What Lewis Carroll meant by "good English" is that the adjective "curious" is so long that you are supposed to form the comparative by saying "More curious!"
Here's a Khan Academy video about the degrees of adjectives:
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/grammar/parts-of-speech-the-modifier/comparative-superlative-intensifiers-and-adverbs-of-degree/v/intro-to-the-comparative-and-the-superlative-v2
When I was in seventh grade, the English teacher said that teenagers could memorize music lyrics very well, so he turned the three degrees of adjectives into a rock-n-roll song, like this:
♪ Positive, comparative, superlative
Positive, comparative, superlative
Ha ha ha! I thought he was funny
I still remember them after all these years.
And now you will too.
