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Alda1119 Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Comparatives

What's the comparative and the superlative form of lightweight?

more/the most lightweight or lighterweight/the lightestweight

Do all adjectives have comparatives and superlatives?

Thanks!!!
  

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Hi Alda Some adjectives don't work very easily as comparatives and superlatives, and this is one of them. If someone were talking about lightweight clothing, for example, I'd say people would tend to simply use "lighter" and "lightest", and eliminate the word "weight": - Tom is wearing a light(weight) jacket. My jacket is light(weight) too.

— Yankee

  • Hi Alda Some adjectives don't work very easily as comparatives and superlatives, and this is one of them.
  • If someone were talking about lightweight clothing, for example, I'd say people would tend to simply use "lighter" and "lightest", and eliminate the word "weight": - Tom is wearing a light(weight) jacket.
  • My jacket is light(weight) too.
  • In fact, it's much lighter than Tom's.
  • If the word "weight" were retained, then I would expect people either to split the word in two or to use more/most: - lighter weight / the lightest weight - more lightweight / the most lightweight
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Hi Alda

Some adjectives don't work very easily as comparatives and superlatives, and this is one of them.
If someone were talking about lightweight clothing, for example, I'd say people would tend to simply use "lighter" and "lightest", and eliminate the word "weight":

- Tom is wearing a light(weight) jacket. My jacket is light(weight) too. In fact, it's much lighter tha
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Thanks Yankee! It(lightweight) was used for a video camera.
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