Which is correct?

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Which is correct?


  1. They should prepare to deal the most crushing and deadly blow to the enemy.
  2. They should prepare to deal the most crushing and the deadliest blow to the enemy.
  3. They should prepare to deal the deadliest and the most crushing blow to the enemy.
 
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motico said:
Which is correct?


  1. They should prepare to deal the most crushing and deadly blow to the enemy.
  2. They should prepare to deal the most crushing and the deadliest blow to the enemy.
  3. They should prepare to deal the deadliest and the most crushing blow to the enemy.
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They are all rather unpleasant and inflammatory.
 
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They're all grammatically correct. I prefer #1.
 
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bhaisahab said:
They are all rather unpleasant and inflammatory.
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Why inflammatory? That's what Julius Caesar said to his troops before the campaigns against the Gallic tribes…
 
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Well, Caesar wasn't being affable and conciliatory, was he?

He couldn't get much more inflammatory than that.

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