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Adjective and Adverb Comparatives Guide

The document discusses adverbs and their comparative and superlative forms. It provides examples of adverbs formed regularly by adding -er and -est, irregular adverbs, and sentences comparing things with adverbs or showing the superlative. Adverbs can modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs and are used to describe manner, time, place, degree, and other details.

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Adjective and Adverb Comparatives Guide

The document discusses adverbs and their comparative and superlative forms. It provides examples of adverbs formed regularly by adding -er and -est, irregular adverbs, and sentences comparing things with adverbs or showing the superlative. Adverbs can modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs and are used to describe manner, time, place, degree, and other details.

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Adjective Adverb Comparative Adverb Superlative Adverb quiet quietly more quietly most quietly careful carefully more

carefully most carefully happy happily more happily most happily


Jeff works more quietly than Steve does. Jeff works the most quietly of all the students. Mary drives more carefully than John does. Of the three drivers, Mary drives the most carefully. Steve works more happily than he used to. Mary sings the most happily of all the girls in the group.

Other Adverbs.
For adverbs which retain the same form as the adjective form, we add -er to form the comparative and -est to form the superlative. Adjective Adverb Comparative Adverb Superlative Adverb hard hard harder hardest fast fast faster fastest early early earlier earliest

Please work harder. Steve works the hardest. Mary runs faster than John does. Mary runs the fastest of all the runners on the team. Steve gets to work earlier than I do. Steve gets to work the earliest of all.

Irregular Adverbs.
Adjective Adverb Comparative Adverb Superlative Adverb good well better best bad badly worse worst far far farther/further farthest/furthest

John plays tennis better than Jack does. On our tennis team, John plays tennis the best. I did worse on the test than Bart did. On that test, I did the worst in the class. My paper airplane flew farther than yours did.

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