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*Crystal, David (1999) The Penguin Dictionary of Language. London: Penguin. | *Crystal, David (1999) The Penguin Dictionary of Language. London: Penguin. | ||
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The superlative is used when comparing more than two things and specifies the extent of the characteristic each object contains(ex. To the greatest/ extreme degree). The marking for superlatives in English are “-est” and “most.”
See Also
External Links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superlative
References
- Crystal, David (1999) The Penguin Dictionary of Language. London: Penguin.
- Matthews, P. H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
