Why can "low" become lower (comparative) and lowest (superlative), while "up" can become only comparative (upper), rather than superlative (uppest)?
The second question is what does act as a substitute for superlative of "up"? I believe that it's needed in the language.
Editing: After reading some answers here who claim that the word "up" is not an adjective and "upper" is not the opposite of "lower". I had to support my initial premise by Cambridge dictionary that shows that there is an adjective which is called "up". In addition in the same dictionary the word "upper" is marked as adjective and the word "lower" is marked there as a opposite. unlike the most of the answers here.
In addition, what's about "more up" is the following context "If you feel a bit depressed today, maybe your mood will tomorrow be more up." Is this not considered as a comparative adjective of "up"?
No comments:
Post a Comment