{"id":666,"date":"2016-03-04T06:10:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T11:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/?page_id=666"},"modified":"2016-03-04T06:26:14","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T11:26:14","slug":"comparative-and-superlative-adverbs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/?page_id=666","title":{"rendered":"COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE ADVERBS"},"content":{"rendered":"

English Grammar<\/a>\u00a0>\u00a0Adverbs<\/a><\/p>\n

With adverbs ending in –ly<\/em>, you must use more to form the comparative, and most<\/em> to form the superlative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Adverb<\/th>\nComparative<\/th>\nSuperlative<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
\u00a0quietly<\/td>\n\u00a0more quietly<\/td>\n\u00a0most quietly<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0slowly<\/td>\n\u00a0more slowly<\/td>\n\u00a0most slowly<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0seriously<\/td>\n\u00a0more seriously<\/td>\n\u00a0most seriously<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

EXAMPLES<\/p>\n

    \n
  • The teacher spoke more slowly<\/strong> to help us to understand.<\/li>\n
  • Could you sing more quietly<\/strong> please?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    With short adverbs that do no end in –ly <\/em>and comparative and superlative forms are identical to adjectives: add –er<\/em> to form the comparative and –est<\/em> to form the superlative. If the adverb ends in e<\/em>, remove it before adding the ending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
    Adverb<\/th>\nComparative<\/th>\nSuperlative<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
    \u00a0hard<\/td>\n\u00a0harder<\/td>\n\u00a0hardest<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    \u00a0fast<\/td>\n\u00a0faster<\/td>\n\u00a0fastest<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    \u00a0late<\/td>\n\u00a0later<\/td>\n\u00a0latest<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

    EXAMPLES<\/p>\n

      \n
    • Jim works harder<\/strong> than his brother.<\/li>\n
    • Everyone in the race ran fast, but John ran the fastest<\/strong> of all.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Some adverbs have irregular comparative and superlative forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
      Adverb<\/th>\nComparative<\/th>\nSuperlative<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
      \u00a0badly<\/td>\n\u00a0worse<\/td>\n\u00a0worst<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
      \u00a0far<\/td>\n\u00a0farther\/further<\/td>\n\u00a0farthest\/furthest<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
      \u00a0little<\/td>\n\u00a0less<\/td>\n\u00a0least<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
      \u00a0well<\/td>\n\u00a0better<\/td>\n\u00a0best<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

      EXAMPLES<\/p>\n

        \n
      • The little boy ran farther<\/strong> than his friends.<\/li>\n
      • You’re driving worse<\/strong> today than yesterday!<\/li>\n
      • He played the best<\/strong> of any player.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        English Grammar\u00a0>\u00a0Adverbs With adverbs ending in –ly, you must use more to form the comparative, and most to form the superlative. Adverb Comparative Superlative \u00a0quietly \u00a0more quietly \u00a0most quietly \u00a0slowly \u00a0more slowly \u00a0most slowly...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-666","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":672,"href":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/666\/revisions\/672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}