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Comparison of Adjectives

Comparison of Adjectives Most Adjectives of Quality, and four Adjectives of Number and Quantity (much, little, many, few) have degrees of comparison. There are three degrees of comparison:- Positive degree : It is the simplest form of the adjective (tall, beautiful, good, etc.) Comparative degree : It is a form used when a comparison is made between two persons or things (taller, more beautiful, best, etc.) Superlative degree : It is a form used when more than two things, or sets of things, are compared. (tallest, most beautiful, best, etc.) Rules of Comparison 1. Adjectives of one syllable are compared by adding er and est in the Competitive and Superlative degrees respectively. (tall - taller, tallest; black - blacker, blackest.) Exceptions:- (i) When the Positive ends in e, the 'e’ of er and est is dropped: wise - wiser, wisest; pale - paler, palest. (ii) When the Positive ends in y preceded by a consonant, y is changed into ‘i’ before er and est: dry - drier, driest. (But w

Prepositions and Their Uses

PREPOSITIONS ◾Preposition (সম্বন্ধসূচক অব্যয়) : যেসকল word বা শব্দ কোন noun অথবা pronoun এর পূর্বে বসিয়া উহাকে বাক্যের অন্য কোন পদের সহিত সম্বন্ধযুক্ত করে, তাহাদেরকে preposition বলে। যেমন- He comes to me; Put it on the table; She is in the garden etc. ( to, on, in are preposition). - A preposition is a word placed before a noun or a pronoun to show its relation to some other words in the sentence. ◾Some important prepositions are given below (নীচে কিছু উল্লেখযোগ্য preposition দেওয়া হল)- ◾At, about, above, across, after, against, along, among, around, by, before, behind, below, beneath, beside, between, beyond, but, down, except, for, from, in, inside, into, on, of, over, since, through, till, to, towards, under, upon, upto, with, within, without Some common rules for using Prepositions ( Preposition বসানোর কিছু নিয়মাবলী ): At, In : Both are used to denote time and place . At : (i) 'At’ is used to refer to a certain moment or point of time (নির্দিষ্ট সময়ের পূর্বে বসে)। (ii) 'A