When you restate the author's ideas, opinions or words in your own words, you are

a) summarizing
b) quoting
c) paraphrasing

postive, comparative, superlative - good, better, best

recall how we defined nouns as words capable of having plurals and possessive endings. adjectives (and their first cousin, the adverb) also have a feature that distinguishes them. they come in three states. first, the raw adjective—in its positive state—merely describes the noun modified; it doesn’t care about how this particular person or thing stacks up against other members of the same noun class

irony  

i hope this you and have a good day

~ashbelle