Three centuries ago, Issac Newton wrote: “.
to myself I seem to have been only like a boy
playing on the seashore ... whilst the great
ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before
me." When Newton surveyed the vast ocean
of truth which lay before him, the laws of
nature were shrouded in an impenetrable veil
Identify a key term used in both passages

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

a

explanation:

b) the sentance would correctly look more like this: jerry's team manned the winning boat with a broken rudder.