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For example, hot has the comparative form hotter and the superlative form hottest. Typically, short adjectives (including most single- syllable adjectives that are semantically gradable), adjectives originating in Old English, and short adjectives borrowed from French use the -er and -est suffixes.
голям (big) по-голям (bigger) най-голям (biggest) In Czech, Polish, Slovak, Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian and Slovene, the comparative is formed from the base form of an adjective with a suffix and superlative is formed with a circumfix (equivalent to adding a prefix to the comparative).
The concept of a drabble is said to have originated in UK science fiction fandom in the 1980s; the 100-word format was established by the Birmingham University SF Society, taking a term from Monty Python's Big Red Book. [3] [4] In the book, "Drabble" was described as a word game where the first participant to write a novel was the winner. In ...
In World War I, all the major powers had their own color book, such as the German White Book, the Austrian Red Book, Russian Orange Book, and more. Especially in wartime or times of crisis, color books have been used as a form of white propaganda to justify governmental action, or to assign blame to foreign actors. The choice of what documents ...
The Brand New Monty Python Bok was the second book to be published by the British comedy troupe Monty Python. [1] Edited by Eric Idle, it was published by Methuen Books in 1973 and contained more print-style comic pieces than their first effort, Monty Python's Big Red Book.
Running back Nick Chubb was ruled out in the third quarter of Sunday's game with what turned out to be a broken foot. (Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images) (Jason Miller via Getty Images)
Of the above types, only shm-reduplication is productive, meaning that examples of the first three are fixed forms and new forms are not easily accepted. Comparative reduplication: In the sentence "John's apple looked redder and redder," the reduplication of the comparative indicates that the comparative is becoming more true over time, meaning ...
Several coaches are squarely on the NFL hot seat entering Week 18, with Mike McCarthy and Brian Daboll among those facing uncertain futures.