[Footnote: Many words which grammarians have considered incapable
of comparison are used in a sense short of their literal meaning, and are
compared by good writers; as, My _chiefest_ entertainment.--_Sheridan_. The
_chiefest_ prize.--_Byron_. _Divinest_ Melan- choly.--_Milton_. _Extremest_
hell.--_Whittier_. _Most perfect_ harmony--_Longfellow_. _Less perfect_
imitations.--_Macaulay_. The extension of these exceptional forms should
not be encouraged.]
+Direction+.--_Correct these errors:_--
1. A more beautifuler location cannot be found.
2. He took the longest, but the most pleasantest, route.
3. Draw that line more perpendicular.
+Correction+.--Draw that line _perpendicular_, or more nearly
_perpendicular_.
4. The opinion is becoming more universal.
5. A worser evil awaits us.
6. The most principal point was entirely overlooked.
7. That form of expression is more preferable.
+Caution+.--When an adjective denoting one, or an adjective denoting more
than one, is joined to a noun, the adjective and the noun must agree in
number.
+Remark+.--A numeral denoting more than one may be prefixed to a singular
noun to form a compound adjective; as, a _ten-foot_ pole (not a _ten-feet_
pole), a _three-cent_ stamp.
+Direction+.
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