Degrees of comparison

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 513.

The NE Adjective

In the age of Chaucer the paradigm of the adjective consisted of four forms distinguished by a single vocalic ending –e

Declension (Late ME)

SingularPlural

strong blind blinde

weak blinde blinde

The loss of the final –e in the transition to the NE period made the adjective an uninflected part of speech.

In Early NE the alteration of root-vowels survived in some adjectives:

old – elder – eldest

farther - farthest

far

further – furthest