"maniest" - 1 õppematerjal

Inglise keele stilistika

9 The ending ­er and ­ist, when added to long adjectives, also violates the norm and has different formations: to suggest excitement, humour, education. e.g It is getting curioser and curioser. She was the beautifullest woman. For the sake of humor or advertising, -er and ­est are added to such adjectives as bad (baddest, worse), good (goodes), many (maniest, manier) etc. Sometimes, double forms of comparison are used, e.g She was getting worser and worser. 5 Adverbs They are expressive when used as intensifiers, e.g horribly smart, terribly polite, awfully pleased, frightfully charming, to love fearfully (awfully). They give a colloquial touch. They are expressive because here we find two incompatible/contrasted words put together. We call such construction oxymoron. Also, degrees of comparison may be violated, e.g weller instead of better.