The tell tale heart What prevents the narrator from killing the old man during the first seven nights

postive, comparative, superlative - good, better, best

recall how we defined nouns as words capable of having plurals and possessive endings. adjectives (and their first cousin, the adverb) also have a feature that distinguishes them. they come in three states. first, the raw adjective—in its positive state—merely describes the noun modified; it doesn’t care about how this particular person or thing stacks up against other members of the same noun class

they both lost a woman they loved named lenore

they believed they interracted with a talking raven

they became orphaned at a young age.