Part 35 (2/2)

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.

Fast, often, soon, late, early.

In the preceding and in the following list, find words that may be used as adjectives.

The following are compared irregularly. Learn them.

_Pos. Comp. Sup. _ ----------- ---------- -------- Badly, Ill, worse, worst.

Well, better, best.

Little, less, least.

Much, more, most.

Far, farther, farthest.

Adverbs ending in _ly_ are generally compared by prefixing _more_ and _most_. Compare the following.

Firmly, gracefully, actively, easily.

+To the Teacher+.--Let the pupils select and pa.r.s.e all the adjectives and adverbs in Lesson 27. For forms, see p. 189. Select other exercises, and continue the work as long as it is profitable. See ”Schemes” for review, p.

188.

REVIEW QUESTIONS.

How is a noun pa.r.s.ed? What modification have adjectives? What is comparison? How many degrees of comparison are there? Define each. How are adjectives regularly compared? Distinguish the uses of the comparative and the superlative degree. Give the directions for using adjectives and adverbs (Lesson 88). Ill.u.s.trate. What adjectives cannot be compared? How are adverbs compared?

LESSON 89.

MODIFICATION OF VERBS.

VOICE.

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