(1) As a small child, Sarah witnessed a horsewhipping of one of the slaves and, even at five years old, she detected something inherently wrong. On March 7, 1870, when she was seventy-nine years old, Sarah led a procession through a blizzard to

1. "Worse" is the comparative of "bad" while "worst" is the superlative. bad-worse-the worst His new movie is worse than his last. Your cooking is getting worse! (compared to before) Among his movies, the newest one is the worst. This is

There's a whole family of "error" things... "human error", "computer error", and so on. Never a hyphen. They seem to act syntactically like mass nouns, which is why you don't need an article. I still reckon that "pilot error" should not have a