The Comic English Grammar: A New And Facetious Introduction To The English Tongue

E OF ADJECTIVES AND THE

, never varies. Thus we say, "A certain cabinet; certain rogues." But as a rusty weathercoc

es, the Kings of Cologne, the Weird Sisters, and many other thin

presses the quality of an ob

ns the signification of the positive; as

e positive to the highest or lowest degree; as

must have been the fattest, be

s the ugliest, becaus

edly, was Homer; for who

e end of it; as, brown, browner, brownest; stout, stouter, stoutest; heavy, heavier, heaviest; wet, wetter, wettest. Th

y or in le before a mute, or those which are accented on the last syllable; for these, like monosyllables, easily

s, good, better, best; bad, worse, worst, &c.; but the Yankee's "notion" of compa

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ndefinite:" and he proceeds to say, "A mountain is larger than a mite; by how many degrees? How much bigger is the earth than a grain of sand? By how many degrees was Socrates

meet, any one of these questions, and see if he does not

cess may be exactly ascertained. A foot is just twelve times

we use certain adverbs and words of like import, whereby we render our mean

reat deal swe

rably more pleasa

butcher is by far the most

uperlative of eminence, as distinguished from the superlative of comparison. Thus, Very Reverend is termed the superlative of eminence, altho

ur opinion, is

nstance; the sentence, "Of all the cultivators of science, the botanist is the most crafty," has the same meaning as

quainted with al