Part 38 (1/2)

97 The hotel is situated ---- near the sea

SCARED, AFRAID

98 She was badly ---- when her horse ran away

99 Harry is ---- of tramps

100 Helen was ---- of the cows in the meadow

EXERCISE LXXIV[128]

_Illustrate by original sentences the correct use of each of these words:_ --Both, each, every, aggravating, liable, likely, apt, e, bound, continual, continuous, deadly, deathly, decided, decisive, dumb, apparently, evidently, extant, funny, healthy, healthful, wholesothy, mad, novel, verbal, pitiable, pitiful, practicable, practical, proeous, awful, splendid, elegant, lovely, nificent

USE of the COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE--The cos or sets of things are compared, the superlative when three or more are compared

To say ”Iron is more useful than _any_ metal” is clearly incorrect, because iron is included in ”any metal,” and of course iron is not ht set iron off in a class by itself, which we can do by inserting ”other” after ”any” ”Iron is more useful than _any other_ metal” is correct After comparatives accompanied by ”than,” the words ”any” and ”all” should be followed by ”other”

To say ”Iron is the most useful of _any_ (or, _any other_) metal” is also clearly incorrect, because we mean that iron is the most useful, not of ”one metal (no matter which)” or of ”some metals (no matter which),” but of allsimply ”Iron is the most useful of (all) metals” It is also incorrect to say ”Iron is the most useful of all _other_ metals,” for iron is not one of the ”other”any” or ”other” with superlatives followed by ”of”

[128] See note To the Teacher, p 41

EXERCISE LXXV

_Which of the italicized forms is preferable?_-- 1 Of London and Paris, London is the _wealthier (wealthiest)_ 2 Of two evils, choose the _less (least)_ 3 The _older (oldest)_ of the three boys was sent to college

4 Which can run the _faster (fastest),_ your horse or il and Horace, the _first (former)_ is the _better (best)_ known

6 Which is the _better (best)_ of the two?

7 Which is the _farther (farthest)_ east, Boston New York, or Philadelphia?

8 There is no doubt about _hiroup of friends

9 Which is the _larger (largest)_ number, the minuend or the subtrahend?

EXERCISE LXXVI

_Explain and correct the errors in the following sentences:_--

1 This picture is, of all others, the one I like best

2 This engraving of mine I like better than any picture I have

3 London is more crowded than any city in Great Britain

4 London is the most crowded of any city in Great Britain

5 She of all other girls ought to be the last to corammar lessons are the hardest of any we have

7 St Peter's is larger than any church in the world

8 St Peter's is the largest of any church in the world

9 Noah and his family outlived all the people who lived before the flood

10 Solomon iser than all men

11 This State exports more cotton than all the states

12 A cowboy is the most picturesque of any men