Identify the degree of comparison for the adjective in the following sentence: The Gothic building was totally destroyed in the fire.

English has two forms of comparison (apart from the word in its standard form, sometimes called the positive degree, with as ... as) : comparative, with the ending - er (for example "taller") and the superlative, with the ending "-est", for example "tallest".

"totally destroyed" is neither comparative nor superlative, so it's positive!