+Caution+.—Adjectives should not be doubly compared.
CORRECT THE FOLLOWING ERRORS.
Of all the boys, George is the more industrious.
Peter was older than the twelve apostles.
Which is the longer of the rivers of America?
This was the most unkindest cut of all.
He chose a more humbler part.
My hat is more handsomer than yours.
The younger of those three boys is the smarter.
Which is the more northerly, Maine, Oregon, or Minnesota?
+Caution+.—Do not use adjectives and adverbs extravagantly.
CORRECT THE FOLLOWING ERRORS.
The weather is horrid.
That dress is perfectly awful.
Your coat sits frightfully.
We had an awfully good time.
This is a tremendously hard lesson.
Harry is a mighty nice boy.
+Remember+ that adjectives whose meaning does not admit of different degrees cannot be compared; as, every, universal.
Use in the three different degrees such of the following adjectives as admit of comparison.
All, serene, excellent, immortal, first, two, total, infinite, three-legged, bright.
+Adverbs+ are compared in the same manner as adjectives. The following are compared regularly. Compare them.