Since you asked, insofar as the participle "burned" is functioning as an adjective here, it is in positive degree. The comparative degree would be "more burned,

Since you asked, insofar as the participle "burned" is functioning as an adjective here, it is in positive degree. The comparative degree would be "more burned," and the superlative degree would be "most burned." This classification of adjectives by degree comes, of course, from Latin, http://www.dl.ket.org/latin2/grammar/ch34-degofadj.htm http://www.dl.ket.org/latin2/grammar/ch34-degofadj.htm and English doesn't operate completely in the straitjacket of Latin grammar, but has its own very intricate grammatical rules. http://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-Grammar-English-Language/dp/0521431468 http://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-Grammar-English-Language/dp/...