I have a question about the word "bright"
By youless
@youless (113017)
Guangzhou, China
7 responses
@owlwings (43903)
• Cambridge, England
11 Dec 10
'bright' is the adjective: "The sun is bright today".
'brighter' is the Comparative, used to compare two things: "The sun is brighter than the moon." 'more bright' is not really good English but may very occasionally be used - I can't, offhand, even think of an example!
'brightest' is the Superlative: "Venus is the brightest object in the sky just at the moment"
'the most brightest' is incorrect because it is, effectively, two superlatives. 'the most bright' is, like 'more bright', only marginally acceptable.
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@owlwings (43903)
• Cambridge, England
11 Dec 10
Songs (and poetry) often bend rules in order to fit the metre or rhythm, so you might find 'more bright' and 'most bright'.
You can sometimes hear (colloquially) "The sun is most bright this morning." with the meaning 'very' or 'exceptionally bright'. Notice that the definite article is not used in this case.
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@krajibg (11922)
• Guwahati, India
11 Dec 10
Hi youless,
Actually the three forms like bright, brighter and brighest is correct grammatically but now there is a tendency to make it what you have heard about. People tend to say like "I am more closer..." than saying "I am closer..." Things are getting different these days.
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maybe they should use much better instead. 
@sarahruthbeth22 (43143)
• United States
12 Dec 10
Would you believe me if I said they All are correct? You can use any of them! I like tp use the brightest most of the time.
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@sarahruthbeth22 (43143)
• United States
12 Dec 10
I don't think so.I think British English is just as vague.
@Hatley (163773)
• Garden Grove, California
12 Dec 10
hi youless you can say my skirt is bright in color but the moon is brighter and the sun is the brightest. those are adjectives.
I think you could say this is a bright child but she is more bright and her sister is most bright but to mey ear these sound very silted and I would much prefer bright, brighter and brightest myself. the other useage sounds contrived a nd not natural at all.
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@DoctorDidi (7018)
• India
12 Feb 11
Bright is an adjective and has so three degrees. The correct forms are
bright, brighter, brightest.
@Valene82 (89)
• United States
13 Dec 10
The correct way is bright, brighter, brightest. It is common in many popular songs to use words incorrectly, so if you heard someone say "more bright" in a song, it is actually incorrect but people may still say something like that. "Most brightest" is redundant and incorrect. English is sort of difficult that way in that there are not always set rules about words...keep trying to learn though!
