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C. Such adjectives - well, asleep, awake, ill. For example -

1. She has been ill for the last two days.
2. Are you well this time?
3. I found the children asleep in the classroom.
4. Most of the devotees are awake during 'Nav Ratri'.
5. Keep the patient awake for, at least, half an hour.

D. When more than two adjectives qualify the same noun or noun-equivalent. For example -

1. God loves all things - seen and unseen, rich and poor, great and small, visible and invisible.
2. Mahatma Gandhi was a man - noble, honest, great, sincere and brave.

Rule 3 - The adjectives 'worth-seeing', worth-nothing, nobody, noone, something, anything, everything', are predicatively used. For example -

1. There must be something wrong with you.
2. The Taj Mahal is a building worth seeing.
3. The story you told me was worth hearing.
4. The scenery is worth-watching.
5. We found everything good, attractive and beautiful at the Bhavan. (Vashnav Devi)

Rule 4 - Adjectives qualify nouns, pronouns, or noun-equivalent only; the use of adverbs in place of adjectives is incorrect. For example -

Clarification -

1. My friend acted nobler than I. (Incorrect)
2. My friend is nobler than I am. (Correct)

In the first sentence, 'nobler' modifies the verb 'acted', while the 'nobler' is adjective. The sentence is incorrect. In the second sentence, 'the nobler' qualifies 'my friend' (a noun), the sentence is correct.

1. My friend acted more nobly than I. (Correct)
2. He was so coward that he left his village. ('So' is an adverb, 'coward' is a noun, so the sentence is Incorrect)
3. He was so cowardly (adjective) that he left his village. (Correct)

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