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Consider this sentence, please:
1) He is one of the tallest students in the class.
How do you change it to a "positive degree" sentence?
Below are a few sentences that I think could be thought of as the "positive degree" versions of (1):
a) He is as tall as any other/some other/the other tallest students in the class. (with weak "any")
b) He is as tall as any other tallest student in the class. (with strong "any")
c) He is as tall as any other/some other/the other tall students in the class. (with weak "any")
d) He is as tall as any other tall student in the class. (with strong "any")
But none of them appears completely correct to me: the first two still contain the superlative degree "tallest", and the last two seem to suggest to me that there are students in the class who are taller than those "tall" students.
1) He is one of the tallest students in the class.
How do you change it to a "positive degree" sentence?
Below are a few sentences that I think could be thought of as the "positive degree" versions of (1):
a) He is as tall as any other/some other/the other tallest students in the class. (with weak "any")
b) He is as tall as any other tallest student in the class. (with strong "any")
c) He is as tall as any other/some other/the other tall students in the class. (with weak "any")
d) He is as tall as any other tall student in the class. (with strong "any")
But none of them appears completely correct to me: the first two still contain the superlative degree "tallest", and the last two seem to suggest to me that there are students in the class who are taller than those "tall" students.
