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The paper is concerned with dynamic equations on time scales, a framework to unify the corresponding theories of ordinary differential and difference equations (cf. \textit{S. Hilger} [Result. Math. 18, No. 1/2, 18--56 (1990; Zbl 0722.39001)] or the monograph of \textit{M. Bohner} and \textit{A. Peterson} [Dynamic equations on time scales. An introduction with applications. Basel: Birkhäuser (2001; Zbl 0978.39001)]). The authors consider a one-dimensional nonlinear second-order dynamic equation and provide a classification of its nonoscillatory ultimately positive solutions into three subclasses: (1) either the \(\Delta\)-derivative of a solution converges to a positive constant, (2) it converges to \(0\) and the solution itself goes to \(\infty\), or (3) the solution tends to a positive constant for \(t\to\infty\). Then they proceed to give sufficient and/or necessary conditions for the equation to possess an eventually positive solution in one of the three subclasses. The proofs use Lebesgue's dominated convergence theorem on time scales due to L.~Neidhart.