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• The degrees of comparison of good are good (positive), better (comparative) and best (superlative).
• The word red is an adjective, in the dogmatical or positive degree of comparison.
• There are commonly reckoned three degrees of comparison, namely: the positive, comparative and superlative; though, strictly speaking, there are but two degrees, the positive being merely the state of the adjective itself.
• Among the degrees of comparison, some have enumerated equality; as when we say, "It is as sweet as honey."
• The degrees of comparison possible are: positive , comparative , superlative , and elative.