CHAPTER I. THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF DEGREES OF COMPARISON
Language is the means by which we are enabled to understand the thoughts, feelings, and desires of others. Language contains individual sounds, signs, or words for all man's thoughts, feelings, and desires. This is why language is the spiritual heritage and treasure of a nation through which all the thoughts, feelings, and desires the people have experienced in the past are unlocked and released through words and sounds to be handed down as something sacred from one generation to another. Language is the biggest treasure of every nation.the first chapter of this research work we have investigated the theoretical and linguistic information about both, degrees of comparison in English and Romanian. In the first subchapter we gathered some information about adjectives and adverbs, their classification into several groups, the functions they posses as we can not imagine the degrees of comparison without adjective and adverbs. They are the pillars of any process of comparison. Then we collected some information about the degrees of comparison in English and Romanian.ability to establish orderings among objects and make comparisons between them according to the amount or degree to which they possess some property is a basic component of human cognition. Languages ??re? Ect this fact: all languages ??have syntactic categories that express gradable concepts, and all languages ??have designated comparative constructions, which are used to express orderings between two objects with respect to the degree or amount to which they possess some property. English and Romanian is not an exception.
1.1 The pillars of any degree of comparison
Comparison is the act of comparing one thing to another, in order to determine similarities and differences, relative size, relative importance, and so on. It may specifically refer to computer science, for example: file comparison lt; # justify gt; .1.1 The adjectiveadjective expresses the categorial semantics of property of a substance. It means that each adjective used in the text presupposes relation to some noun the property of whose referent it denotes, such as its material, colour, dimensions, position, state, and other characteristics both permanent and temporary.
In grammar lt; # justify gt; 1) qualitative adjectives - denote qualities of a substance directly, not through it s relation to another substance, as size, shape, colour, physical and mental qualities, qualities of general estimation; little, large, high, soft, hard, warm, white, blue, strong, bold, beautiful, important, necessary, etcaracteristics of qualitative adjectives
Most qualitative adjective have degrees of comparison: big bigger the biggest; interesting more interesting, the most interesting. Some qualitative adjective such as greenish, darkish, incurable, unsuitable, chief, principal have no degrees of comparison.
They have certain typical suffixes such as - full, -less, -ous, -ent, -able, -y, -ish: careful, careless, dangerous, convenient, comfortable, silvery, watery, whitish.
From most of them adverbs can be formed by the suffix -ly: graceful- gracefully
Most qualitative adjectives can be used as Attributes and Predicatives.lovely the little river is, with its dark, changing waves! (Attributes) you re nearly as old as I am. (Predicatives)
2) relative adjectives - denote qualities of a substance through their relation to materials (silken, woollen, wooden), to place (Italian, Asia), to time (monthly, weekly), to some action (preparatory, rotatory) characteristics of relative adjectives
Relative adjectives have no degrees of comparisondo not form adverbs with the suffix -ly.have certain typical suffixes such as -en, -an, -ist, -ic, -ical: wooden, Italian, socialist , synthetic, analytical.adjectives are chiefly used as Attributes: She was a fair example of the Middle American class.
The use of adjective
A given occurrence of an adjective can generally be classified into one of four kinds of uses:
* Attributive adjectives are part of the noun phrase lt; # justify gt; 1.2 An introduction on degrees of comparison
Comparison is the act of comparing one thing to another, in order to determine similarities and differences, relative size, relative importance, and so on. It may specifically refer to computer science, for example: file comparison lt; # justify gt; 1.3 Development and changes of adjectives and degrees of comparison...
