GRAMMAR

Transformation of Sentence : Superlative To Positive & Vice Versa

Degree

Degree হল Adjective এর রূপভেদ। এটি ৩টি ভাগে বিভক্ত। যথা-

  • Positive Degree
  • Comparative Degree
  • Superlative Degree

Positive Degree:

কোন sentence এ Noun বা pronoun এর দোষ, গুন, অবস্থা ইত্যাদি বুঝাতে adjective এর যে রূপ ব্যবহার হয় তাকে Positive Degree বলে।
যেমন – Mr. Roni is a good man.

Comparative Degree:

সাধারণত দুটি Noun বা pronoun এর দোষ, গুন, অবস্থা ইত্যাদির তুলনা বুঝাতে adjective এর যে রূপ ব্যবহার হয় তাকে Comparative Degree বলে।
যেমন – Hasan is wiser than Karim.

Superlative Degree:

সাধারণত অনেকের মধ্যে তুলনা বুঝাতে adjective এর যে রূপ ব্যবহার হয় তাকে Superlative Degree বলে।
যেমন – Rony is the best player in the team.

Change of Degrees:

Superlative Degree into Positive Degree

Superlative Degree কে Positive Degree তে রুপান্তর করার নিয়মঃ

Rule 1:

No other + প্রদত্ত Superlative এর পরের অংশ + verb + so/as + Superlative Degree এর Positive form + as + মূল sentence এর subject.

Superlative: Rony is the smallest player in the team.
Positive: No other player in the team is as small as Rony.
Superlative: Sima is the best housewife.
Positive: No other housewife is as good as Sima.

Rule 2:

all other, most other, many other, few other, very few, one of the যুক্ত Superlative Degree কে Positive Degree তে রুপান্তর করার নিয়মঃ

প্রথমে very few + Superlative এর পরের অংশ + verb এর plural form + so/as + Superlative Degree এর Positive form + as + মূল sentence এর subject.

Superlative: He is one of the best players in the team.
Positive: Very few players in the team are as good as he.
Superlative: Iron is one of the most useful metals.
Positive: Very few metals are as useful as Iron.

Positive into superlative:

Rule 1:

No other যুক্ত positive degree কে superlative degree তে রুপান্তর করার নিয়মঃ

প্রদত্ত sentence এর শেষের Subject + verb + the + positive এর superlative form + no other এর পর থেকে verb এর মাঝের অংশ।

Positive: No other player in the team is as good as Raju.
Superlative: Raju is the best player in the team.
Positive: No other man man in the society is as good as him.
Superlative: He is the best man in the society.

Rule 2:

Very few যুক্ত positive degree কে superlative degree তে রুপান্তর করার নিয়মঃ

প্রদত্ত sentence এর শেষের Subject + verb + one of the + positive এর superlative form + very few এর পর থেকে verb এর মাঝের অংশ।

Positive: Very few men in the village are as tall as Kabir.
Superlative: Kabir is one of the tallest men in the village.
Positive: Very few people in the country are as good as Rakib
Superlative: Rakib is one of the best people in the country.

Exercise for Practice:

Superlative To Positive

A.

  1. Rumi is the prettiest girl in the class.
  2. The rose is the finest of all flowers.
  3. January is the coldest month in Bangladesh.
  4. Chittagong is the biggest port in Bangladesh.
  5. Gold is the most precious metal.

B.

  1. The Padama is the largest river in Bangladesh.
  2. Azad is the best boy.
  3. Mr. Jabber is the most popular teacher.
  4. Gold is the most precious metal.
  5. This is one of the greatest pictures in the world.
  6. The rose is the finest of all flowers.
  7. Bhutan is one of the smallest countries in the world.
  8. She is the noblest person.
  9. English is the richest of all languages in the world.
  10. He is the busiest man I have ever seen.

Positive To Superlative

A.

01.No other woman was as clever as the lady guest.

02. Very few dramatists are as successful as Shakespeare.

03. Very few boys are as good as Jerry.

04. No other emperor was as great as Akbar.

05. Very few animals are as ferocious as a lion.

06. Very few persons are as stout as he.

07. No other day is as dismay as today.

08. No other mosque is as large as this.

09. Very few animals are as ferocious as lion.

10. There is no other place as lonely as this.

11. very few metals are as precious as gold.

12. You are not as slow as he.

13. No other boy in the orphanage is as good as Hasan.

14. Very few restaurants are so expensive as Foyot’s.

15. Very few girls are as fair as Nabila.

16. No other animal is as useful as Cow.

17. Very few pictures in the world are as great as this.

18. Very few roads are as narrow as this road.

19. Nothing passes as quick as time.

20. Very few scenes are as lovely as this.