4.  Adjectives are often used to modify the sense of other adjectives, or the action of verbs, and to express the quality of things in connexion with the action by which that quality is produced; as, “Red hot iron; Pale blue lining; Deep sea-green sash; The apples boil soft; Open your hand wide; The clay burns white; The fire burns blue; The eggs boil hard.”

    5.  When an adjective is preceded by a preposition, and the noun is
    understood, the two words may be considered an adverbial phrase; as,
    “In general, in particular;” that is, generally, particularly.

    6.  Adjectives should be placed next to the nouns which they qualify;
    as, “A tract of good land.”

7.  We should generally avoid comparing such adjectives as do not literally admit of comparison; such as, more impossible, most impossible; more unconquerable, more perfect, &c.  See REMARKS on adjectives, page 76.

8.  When an adjective or an adverb is used in comparing two objects, it should be in the comparative degree; but when more than two are compared, the superlative ought to be employed; as, “Julia is the taller of the two; Her specimen is the best of the three.”

FALSE SYNTAX.

    Note 2.  The boat carries thirty tun.

    The chasm was twenty foot broad, and one hundred fathom in depth.

    Note 6.  He bought a new pair of shoes, and an elegant piece of
    furniture.

    My cousin gave his fine pair of horses for a poor tract of land.

    Note 7.  The contradictions of impiety are still more
    incomprehensible.

    It is the most uncertain way that can be devised.

    This is a more perfect model than I ever saw before.

    Note 8.  Which of those two cords is the strongest?

    I was at a loss to determine which was the wiser of the three.

RULE XIX.

Adjective pronouns belong to nouns, expressed or understood; as, “Any man, all men.”

    NOTE 1.  The demonstrative adjective pronouns must agree in number
    with their nouns; as, “This book, these books; that sort,
    those sorts.”

2.  The pronominal adjectives, each, every, either, neither, another, and one, agree with nouns in the singular number only; as, “Each man, every person, another lesson;” unless the plural nouns convey a collective idea:  as, “Every six months.”

3. Either is often improperly employed instead of each; as, “The king of Israel, and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, sat either of them on his throne.” Each signifies both taken separately; either implies only the one or the other taken disjunctively:—­“sat each on his throne.”

FALSE SYNTAX.