Question

Identify the one illogical comparison among the following examples. The uniforms we saw last night are the best that I’ve seen. Of all the sports teams at our high school, the boys soccer team has the oldest uniforms. Our purple and green striped uniforms are the most ugliest in the whole league. Of all the high school volleyball teams, the one from that school always has the newest uniforms.

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct answer to the question: Identify the one illogical comparison among the following examples, would be: Our purple and green striped uniforms are the most ugliest in the whole league.

Explanation:

The reason comes from the wrong use of superlative structures in the sentence.

Superlatives are a grammatical structure, that are used to establish the superiority, or inferiority, of something, or someone, from a group of choices. So, when the sentence establishes that the uniforms are ugly, but not only that, they are the worst of an entire group, meaning the whole league, it requires the use of the superlative structure. However, because ugly assumes its superlative form (ugliest), then "most" does not need to be used, because it becomes a redundancy. To be grammatically correct, then, the sentence would have to be: Our purple and green striped uniforms are the ugliest in the whole league.

Answer 2

Answer:

Our purple and green striped uniforms are the most ugliest in the whole league.

Explanation:

This is the sentence that employs comparatives wrongly. When we compare two things, we need to change the structure of the adjective. In some words, this will mean an addition of the suffix "-er" and "-est." However, in other cases, we will need to employ the words "more" and "most." It is important to remember that in no cases should we use both of these structures. This sentence is wrong precisely because of this. The correct form would be:

"Our purple and green striped uniforms are the ugliest in the whole league."