{"id":73742,"date":"2020-04-04T11:46:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T11:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73742"},"modified":"2020-04-04T11:46:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T11:46:59","slug":"difference-between-comparative-and-superlative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/difference-between-comparative-and-superlative\/","title":{"rendered":"Difference Between Comparative And Superlative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We use the <a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/comparison-using-comparative-adjectives-and-adverbs\/\">comparative<\/a> to compare one person, thing, action, event or group with another person, thing etc. We use the superlative to compare somebody\/something with the whole group that she\/he\/it belongs to.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mary is\u00a0<b>taller than her three sisters.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Mary is\u00a0<b>the tallest of the four girls.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>He plays\u00a0<b>better than anybody else in the team.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>He is\u00a0<b>the best player in the team.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Iron is\u00a0<b>more useful than any other metal.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Iron is\u00a0<b>the most useful metal.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When a group only has two members, we sometimes use the comparative instead of the superlative.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>John and Tom are clever boys, but I think John is\u00a0<b>the cleverer\/cleverest\u00a0<\/b>of the two.<\/li>\n<li>Take\u00a0<b>the shorter\/shortest\u00a0<\/b>of the two routes.<\/li>\n<li>Alice and Mary are rich women. But Alice is\u00a0<b>the richer\/richest\u00a0<\/b>of the two.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some people feel that a superlative is incorrect in this case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We use the comparative to compare one person, thing, action, event or group with another person, thing etc. We use the superlative to compare somebody\/something with the whole group that she\/he\/it belongs to. Mary&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[1402,2499,1405,1404,2500],"class_list":["post-73742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-comparative","tag-comparative-adjective","tag-comparative-or-superlative","tag-superlative","tag-superlative-adjective"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73743,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73742\/revisions\/73743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}