Ministry of higher and secondary special education of the republic of uzbekistan теrmez state university department of philology and teaching languages: on theme

4.Overview of both categories
The forms of the suffixes of the degrees of comparison were reduced to –er, est.
Some adjectives, especially of foreign origin, are found in a form moore/most which may be associated with the adverb.
In OE the adjective was declined to show the gender, number and case of the noun it modified: it had a five-case system and two types of declension, weak and strong, often serving, together with the preceding pronoun or alone, to present a thing as “definite” or “indefinite”.
The most important innovation in the adjective system in the ME period was the growth of analytical forms of the degrees of comparison.
The adjective in EModE lost the form of plural and weak forms and acquired its present-day qualities. The degrees of comparison are formed by means of the suffixes -er and -est. The forms elder/older, eldest/oldest and further/farther, furthest/farthest are distinguished in use.
The new way of forming the degrees of comparison: the use of the adverbs more and most before the adjective came into practice.Double comparatives and superlatives are also found (more wider, the most unkindest).
At the same time more and most are used as comparative and superlative degrees of the adjective much (they are adjectives of full semantics) [2, с.72].
To sum up, we may say that among all the parts of speech the adjective has undergone the most profound grammatical changes. In the course of time it has lost all its grammatical categories except the degrees of comparison.

Pronunciation

Compound nouns tend to have more stress on the first word. In the phrase "pink ball", both words are equally stressed (as you know, adjectives and nouns are always stressed). In the compound noun "golf ball", the first word is stressed more (even though both words are nouns, and nouns are always stressed). Since "golf ball" is a compound noun we consider it as a single noun and so it has a single main stress - on the first word. Stress is important in compound nouns. For example, it helps us know if somebody said "a GREEN HOUSE" (a house which is painted green) or "a GREENhouse" (a building made of glass for growing plants inside).