If you were about to go into battle, how do think you would feel? do you think that fighting against people from your own country (as in the civil war) would make it more difficult?

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

an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.