Comparatives and Superlatives

By now you should know what an adjective is: words like tall, big or intelligent. These words can have what grammarians name degrees of modification. The degrees of modification can be the positive the comparative and the superlative forms. 

• We use comparatives to compare two things or two people.
• Superlatives are used, however, to compare to show the difference between more than two things or more than two people.
• To form comparatives and superlatives you need to know the number of syllables in the adjective.