--_Study the Caution and the Remark, and correct these
errors:_--
1. These kind of people will never be satisfied.
2. The room is fifteen foot square; I measured it with a two-feet rule.
3. The farmer exchanged five barrel of potatoes for fifty pound of sugar.
4. These sort of expressions should be avoided.
5. We were traveling at the rate of forty mile an hour.
6. Remove this ashes and put away that tongs.
Miscellaneous.
1. He was more active than any other of his companions.
+Correction+.--As he is not one of his companions, _other_ is unnecessary.
2. He did more to accomplish this result than any other man that preceded
or followed him.
3. The younger of the three sisters is the prettier.
(This is the construction which requires the superlative. See the second
Remark in this Lesson.)
4. This result, of all others, is most to be dreaded.
5. She was willing to take a more humbler part.
6. Solomon was wiser than any of the ancient kings.
7. I don't like those sort of people.
8. I have the most entire confidence in him.
9. This is the more preferable form.
10. Which are the two more important ranges of mountains in North America?
11. He writes better than any boy in his class.
GENERAL REVIEW.
TO THE TEACHER.
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