l meaning.same can be seen in Romanian:
mai , cel mai practically express the same meanings. Besides there are a number of words used as lexical intensifiers in both languages, which are used with both analytical and synthetic forms.of comparison express equality and difference of degree within the same quality. Only those adjectives, which denote properties, can have degrees of comparison. Usually grammar books say that qualitative adjectives can form the degrees of comparison and the relative ones do not. This is not always the case. Thus: adjective with the suffix -ish (reddish), with a negative meaning like impossible), a number of adjectives, which mainly belong to a superlative meaning (exclusive, absolute, extreme, principal, chief, unique, superior, inferior, complete , etc). But even these adjective can be used with intensifiers to express a certain inequality: far superior, much more superior, very much superior, less superior, much less superior, least superior. Even those adjectives that do not form the degrees of comparison, belong to the positive degree and ca n some cases be used for stylistic purposes to form a comparative degree .: You can not be
deader than dead.was
the deadest of them all.are not
less dead than he is. (E. Hemingway) adjective do not form degrees of comparison (woolen, wooden, economic) and some of them can express relative quality of objects or phenomena (wooden door, glass door, a monthly magazine, daily program, European country, political life , capitalist society, socialist ideology). In some cases relative adjectives acquire an additional meaning and can form the degrees of comparison :: The life there had been
more English than in England.is
more English than the English. John is
very English .is
English to the backbone.has
very little English in him and you have even
less .grammatical topic - a less grammatical topic - a purelytopic - a more grammatical topic - the most grammaticalthe suggested topics.all these examples we really detect a difference or variation of quality within the same adjective. Qualitative adjectives express various qualities within the same adjective defining a certain object or phenomenon. Thus, varying and static quality could be considered as an opposition. In this respect we should mention Blokh s division of adjectives into evaluative and specific [Blokh, 1983, pages 127- 135]. One and the same adjective can be used either in the evaluative or in the specificative function. As an example he gives the adjective
good, which is basically qualitative (good-better-the best), but when used as part of a marking scale together with the grading terms bad, satisfactory, excellent, it acquires a static or specificative function. On the other hand, the whole grading system here (bad-satisfactory-good-excellent) could be considered as a paradigm of lexical degrees of comparison. All the adjectives, which can form degrees of comparison, either lexically or grammatically (the synthetic forms) can vary their quality or be evaluative parative degree in English and Romanian help to establish a correlation of superiority, inferiority and equality of a variable quality or property, possessed by objects or phenomena, which are compared or contrasted. The comparative degree of equality compares objects or phenomena on the same level. In other words, it expresses an equality or an equivalence of qualities or properties of two or more objects .: This mountain is
as high as that one. Acest munte este
tot atit de inalt ca si celalalt.
Thus, if negation is added here then inequality comparison is used .: This mountain is not so high as that one. Muntele acesta nu este to tati de inalt ca celalalt.
In Romanian the degree of comparison of equality and inequality is formed by the help of the following constructions: tot asa de, tot atit de, la fel de, deopotriva de,
Example: Aceasta greseala nu este tot atit de grava ca aceea.
This mistake is not as grave as that one.are a quiet number of idioms, where the comparative of equality is used (though in many cases the meaning of superlative is implied :: as busy as a bee (very busy) - harnic ca o albina (foarte harnic).
The comparative degree of superiority shows that the object or phenomena has a higher degree of quality in comparison with those, which are compared. In ...
