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Even the weakest foot soldiers moved more quickly than armored knights.


Place the underlined modifiers in the following order: positive degree, comparative degree, and superlative degree.


armored, more quickly, weakest


more quickly, armored, weakest


weakest, more quickly, armored


armored, weakest, more quickly

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MissPhiladelphia

The positive degree is
armored
since the modifier only describes 'knights'

The comparative degree is
more quickly
since it compares the foot soldiers and the knights

The superlative degree is
weakest
since it expresses that the foot soldiers in the extreme of the weak

hortensiaarch

The correct answer is A. armored, more quickly, weakest.

In the sentence, the adjective armored is used in its base form, that is to say, in its positive degree. The second modifier, more quickly, is used in its comparative degree since the use of the structure more… than signals the comparative form of the adjective. Finally, the third modifier, weakest, is used in its superlative degree because it is an adjective that compares a whole group of people, and the –est ending is the suffix that indicates the superlative form.  

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