1. He is the oldest of all his brothers.
2. My dress is brighter than yours.
3. He is the wisest of all the boys in the class.
4. Ritu is better than Saksshi in Maths.
5. She is senior to me. (Not sure on this one)
6. This lesson is more interesting than the previous one.
7. He is stronger than I imagined.
8. Your handwriting is improving from good to greater with each passing day.
I guess that that quote said by Marmee means that Meg should develop skills and qualities which are praiseworthy, such as being hardworking, honest, and generally good, which people deem to be the qualities that a decent human being should have. She also mentions that even though she may be pretty, Meg shouldn't be vain about it, and should strive to have good inner qualities besides those outward ones.
The lines that describe the decline and fall of the city are the following:
- These wall-stones are wondrous — calamities crumpled them, these city-sites crashed, the work of giants corrupted.
- The roofs have rushed to earth, towers in ruins.
- The halls of the city once were bright: there were many bath-houses, a lofty treasury of peaked roofs, many troop-roads, many mead-halls filled with human-joys until that terrible chance changed all that.
- Days of misfortune arrived—blows fell broadly—
death seized all those sword-stout men—their idol-fanes were laid waste —the city-steads perished.
- This place has sunk into ruin, been broken into heaps,
D because it does not relate back to boosted brain power
The direct object comes after the action verb while the subjective complement comes after a linking verb. :)
