The termination _ish_ added to adjectives, expresses a slight
degree of quality below the comparative; as, _black, blackish; salt,
saltish. Very_, prefixed to the comparative, expresses a degree of
quality, but not always a superlative degree.
Read this Lecture carefully, particularly the NOTES; after which you may
parse the following adjectives and neuter verb, and, likewise, the
examples that follow. If you cannot repeat all the definitions and
rules, spread the Compendium when you parse. But before you proceed,
please to commit the
SYSTEMATIC ORDER OF PARSING.
_The order of parsing an_ ADJECTIVE, is--an adjective, and why?--compare
it--degree of comparison, and why?--to what noun does it belong?--RULE.
That _great_ nation _was_ once _powerful_; but now it is _feeble_.
_Great_ is an adjective, a word added to a noun to express its
quality--pos. great, com. greater, sup. greatest--it is in the positive
degree, it expresses the quality of an object without any increase or
diminution, and belongs to the noun "nation," according to
RULE 18. _Adjectives belong to, and qualify, nouns expressed or
understood_.
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