a more amazing

[Vladv1]

Is it true that gradable adjectives can do no comparative forms but can do superlative forms? A more amazing, the most amazing.

 

[emsr2d2]

Is it true that gradable adjectives can do no cannot have comparative forms but can do have superlative forms? A more amazing, the most amazing.

No. Something can certainly be more amazing than something else.

 

[5jj]

Where did you read this little snippet?

 

[Vladv1]

Where did you read this little snippet?

I thought that undgradable adjectives can't take "very" before them and for some reason I thought they can't be compared.

 

[5jj]

That's a question of style rather than of grammar.

 

[Vladv1]

That's a question of style rather than of grammar.

Please elaborate.

 

[jutfrank]

Is it true that gradable adjectives can do no comparative forms but can do superlative forms? A more amazing, the most amazing.

Firstly, you're asking about ungradable adjectives, not gradable ones, and generally speaking they can't be compared, no.

This cat is deader than that cat.
This is the deadest cat of all.

If you say something like This cat is even more amazing than that cat, then 'amazing' in that sentence is not ungradable.

 

[Vladv]

Firstly, you're asking about ungradable adjectives, not gradable ones, and generally speaking they can't be compared, no.

This cat is deader than that cat.
This is the deadest cat of all.

If you say something like This cat is even more amazing than that cat, then 'amazing' in that sentence is not ungradable.

The same ungradable adjective can be gradable as well? Please elaborate.

 

[jutfrank]

The same ungradable adjective can be gradable as well?

Yes, exactly. It all depends on context, and what the speaker means. In my opinion, this is quite a good example of how it's not particularly useful to categorise uncontextualised words into semantic classes.