As far as your silly
experiment, your problem arises in that ly
is used to convert an adjective into an adverb, with the definition "in a [adjective] manner".
Thus, sillily
is a word ("in a silly manner")
As far as "in a sillier manner", there are two rules for forming a superlative from an adverb. If the adverb was formed by adding ly
to an adjective, you must use most
or more
.
"In a sillier manner" -> more sillily
"In the silliest manner" -> most sillily
If an adverb is the same as the adjective form, you can make a superlative using er
or est
"In a faster manner" -> faster
(ex. "He ran faster")
"In the fastest manner" -> fastest
(ex. "He ran fastest")
As for sillilily
, this is entirely nonsense. The reason is that our ly
rule only applies to adjectives. You can not apply ly
to an adverb and expect a "double adverb". An attempt to apply the rule directly would result in:
"In a sillily manner"
Notice that since manner
is a noun, it should not have an adverb describing it. In your examples the word "suggesting" came out of nowhere. Nothing in the grammatical construction implied that there was suggestion.
In the case of sillililiest
we encounter both of the above problems simultaneously. First, you attempted to make an adverb from an adverb by adding ly
sillily
-> sillilily
Then you attempted to apply est
or er
to make a superlative
sillilily
-> sillililiest
Both of these can not be done. The first because ly
only applies to adjectives, not adverbs. The second because to make a superlative from an adverb which was formed by adding ly
, you must use 'more' or 'most'. Again- you introduced the word "suggesting" which came out of nowhere.
You have many things wrong here. Many goes with count nouns, much with mass nouns, and both share the same comparative and superlatives.
many/more/most:
- I have many friends.
- I have more friends.
- I have the most friends.
much/more/most:
- I have much interest.
- I have more interest.
- I have the most interest.
As for better, it is already the comparative degree of both good and well.
good/better/best:
- She is a good singer.
- She is a/the better singer.
- She is the best singer.
well/better/best
- She sings well.
- She sings better.
- She sings best.
Best Answer
The words "louder" and "loudest" are the comparative and superlative forms of the adjective "loud." Adjectives are used to describe nouns. The terms "more loudly" and "most loudly" are the comparative and superlative forms of the adverb "loudly." Adverbs are used to describe verbs. (There are some other kinds of adverbs, but they aren't important for this discussion because they don't have comparatives and superlatives.)