Degrees of comparison refer to adjectives being written indifferent forms to compare one, two or more nouns which are wordsdescribing persons, places and things.

The three different forms of comparison are

• Positive degree.

• Comparative degree.

• Superlative degree.

Positive degree

When we speak about only one person or thing, we use thePositive degree.

Examples:

This house is big.

Comparative degree

When we compare two persons or two things with each other,

Examples:

This house is bigger than that one. (Comparative degree)

Superlative degree

When we compare more than two persons or things with oneanother,

Examples:

This is the biggest house in this street. (Superlative)
Tense

A tense is a form taken by a verb to show the time of anaction.

There are three main tenses:

Present tense:

Things that are true when the words are spoken or written; or aregenerally true; or for some languages will be true in thefuture

Past tense:

Things that were true before the words were spoken orwritten

Future tense:

Things that will or might be true after the words are spoken orwritten

Homophones

Two or more words (such as knew and new or meat and meet) thatare pronounced the same but differ in meaning, origin, and oftenspelling.

Synonym

A word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same asanother word or phrase in the same language, for example shut is asynonym of close.

Antonym

A word opposite in meaning to another (e.g. bad and good).

Phrasal verb

A phrasal verb consists of a verb and a preposition or adverbthat modifies or changes the meaning; 'give up' is a phrasal verbthat means 'stop doing' something, which is very different from'give'.