What is the most expensive mistake?
What is the most expensive mistake?
High seas disaster It’s hard not to think of the sinking of the Titanic when considering the most expensive mistakes in history. In 1912 the monetary loss of the ship, which was on its maiden voyage when it sank, was $7.5 million. According to Business Insider, that would be the equivalent of $168 million today.
What are some of the costliest mistakes ever made in history?
The most expensive mistakes in history
- Lost bitcoin.
- Trains too wide for the rail.
- Apple founder sells shares.
- New Coke.
- The heavy submarine. David Nagle/U.S. Navy/Getty Images.
- Millennium Bridge. Laurence Griffiths/ALLSPORT/Getty Images.
- New Jersey schools. Richard MELLOUL/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images.
- The Hateful Eight guitar. zoff-photo/iStock/Getty Images Plus.
What is the mean of costly?
costing much; expensive; high in price: a costly emerald bracelet; costly medical care. resulting in great expense: The upkeep of such a large house is costly. resulting in great detriment: It was a costly mistake because no one ever trusted him again. of great value; very valuable; sumptuous. lavish; extravagant.
Is more costly correct?
There’s a myth among the non-native English speakers that ‘more costly’ is ungrammatical and ‘costlier’ is grammatical. However, this is not true at all. Both of them are grammatically correct, ‘more costly’ being the widely used one. ‘Costlier’ is used rarely and sounds a bit odd to a native ear.
Which is more costly diamond or platinum?
ďƒ˜ Platinum jewellery is always more expensive than gold jewellery due to its unique and rare qualities, but diamond jewellery is most expensive of all. Even if the diamond is smaller in weight but of excellent grading, it will still be costlier than gold and platinum being of greater weight.
What is the superlative form of costly?
costliest
What is the superlative for heavy?
The superlative adjective from heavy is heaviest but the superlative of widely is most widely.
What is the superlative form of dry?
EnchantedLearning.com Grammar
| Case | Adjective | Superlative Form |
|---|---|---|
| 1-syllable adjectives ending in “y” | dry | driest |
| spry | spriest/spryest | |
| wry | wriest/wryest | |
| 1-syllable adjectives, other cases | fast | fastest |
What is the degree of dry?
AdjectiveEdit The superlative form of dry; most dry.
What is the superlative from of shy?
The comparative for ‘shy’ is more shy (even though it is one syllabal) or shyer and the superlative is ‘the shyest’ or the most shy.
What is the superlative form of useful?
General Rules for Comparatives and Superlatives
| Adjective or Adverb | Superlative | |
|---|---|---|
| Most two-syllable adjectives | useful | (the) most/least useful |
| Adverbs ending in -ly | carefully | (the) most/least careful |
| slowly | (the) most/least slowly | |
| Two-syllable adjectives ending in -y | sleepy | (the) sleepiest |
What is the superlative of difficult?
Some rules about forming comparatives and superlatives
| Adjective | Comparative | Superlative |
|---|---|---|
| dangerous | more dangerous | the most dangerous |
| difficult | more difficult | the most difficult |
| exciting | more exciting | the most exciting |
| ridiculous | more ridiculous | the most ridiculous |
What is the superlative degree of fast?
| Adverb | Comparative | Superlative |
|---|---|---|
| hard | harder | hardest |
| fast | faster | fastest |
| late | later | latest |
What is the comparative for good?
good – better – best. bad- worse- worst. far – farther – farthest. little – less – least. many – more – most.
What comes after Good Better Best?
Finally, there are three very common adjectives that have very irregular comparative and superlative forms. They are good > better > best, bad > worse > worst and far > further > furthest: His laptop is better than mine.
What is the comparative for intelligent?
If an adjective has two or more syllables, it usually forms the comparative and superlative degrees with more and most: more intelligent, most intelligent; more difficult, most difficult.
What is the third form of intelligent?
The past tense of smart is smarted or smort. The third-person singular simple present indicative form of smart is smarts. The present participle of smart is smarting.
What is the superlative of handsome?
The comparative and the superlative forms of ‘handsome’ are ‘more handsome’ and ‘the most handsome’ respectively.
Is it more pretty or prettier?
The comparative of a two syllable noun ending in y is formed by replacing the final -y with -ier. So prettier is correct. More pretty is incorrect.
