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Omg, superlatives are tough, I don't think many of these even fall in the correct category.
I googled superlative, yea, that's right, I admit it. Here's what I got:
In grammar the superlative of an adjective or adverb is a form of adjective or adverb which indicates that something has some feature to a greater degree than anything it is being compared to in a given context. For example, if Adam is 45, Bess is 35, and Chris is 25, Adam is the oldest of the three, because his age transcends those of Bess and Chris in one direction, while Chris is the youngest, because his age transcends those of Adam and Bess in the other direction. If Dan, who is 50, and Edna, who is 20, join the group, Dan now becomes the oldest and Edna the youngest.
However, when comparing only two entities, use of the superlative is ungrammatical: if the group were to contain only Adam and Bess, Adam would be older, while Bess would be younger and it would be ungrammatical to say that Adam was the oldest. The superlative degree used in reference to sets of two or fewer are nevertheless commonly found in writing and speech - an example of this being an auction to the "highest bidder" in which only one bid were received, where the rules of English grammar would not negate the sale
Like Jack who said I was the funniest poster would imply that I was only the funniest because I was the only poster on FTR. I cannot seem to figure one out.
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