Stylistic use of degrees of comparison of adjectives

The aim of the given course paper is to investigate such part of speech as the adjective and its degrees of comparison. As it is generally known, adjectives form the third major class of words in the English language (after nouns and verbs). We are to study the stylistic peculiarities and use of adjectives and their degrees of comparison. The topicality of this course paper is that, if we study the English language, it goes without saying that we should have a pretty good idea of its parts of speech.

Introduction 3

Theoretical survey

1. Development and changes of adjectives and degrees of comparison 4

2. Adjectives in Modern English 6

3. Syntactic Functions of Adjectives 9

4. Stylistic potential of degrees of comparison of adjectives 10

5. Epithet 14

Linguistic investigation

Use of adjectives and their degrees of comparison in different functional styles of speech 18

Conclusion 23

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