Rewrite this sentence in the active voice: "When she was really young, she was bitten by a neighborhood
dog,"

She got bitten by a neighborhood dog when she was really young.

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

the use supports it by making it seem like the dictators are not bad to the people when the truly are.