Another Example of Comparative Versus Superlative
The rule is that if you compare two things, you should use the comparative (“better”), and if you’re comparing three or more things, use the superlative (“best”). This guy gets it wrong.
Go thou and don’t do likewise!
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Someone Else Wrote This Post
Namely, XKCD, which I’ve mentioned in the past. I highly recommend the site.
A Good Example of an Incorrect Verb Form
You know about “go, went, gone” right? How about “show, showed, shown”? Last panel:
I suspect a lot of folks wouldn’t have noticed that. After all, we say “snuck” a lot when we should have said “sneaked.” Maybe I’m just being a curmudgeon.
Another Bad Elipsis
The cartoonist figures it’s bad, anyway; hence the humor.
The cartoonist wants “eat more bananas than they eat monkeys,” figuring you’d think “eat more bananas than monkeys do.”
The Danger of an Elipsis
An elipsis is when you deliberately leave out part of a sentence because you figure the missing part is easy to figure out. That’s the danger. Panel 2:
He should have said “what part of California” but you knew that.
