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The document discusses the base, comparative, and superlative forms of adjectives and adverbs in English. It provides examples of one, two, and three syllable adjectives and their comparative and superlative forms. It also shows how to create adverbs from adjectives and their comparative and superlative forms.
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- 1. Adjectives and Adverbs Base,Comparative, and Superlative Forms
- 2. Base Adjective Comparative Adjective Superlative Adjective One Syllable Adjectives Base Adverb Comparative Adverb Superlative Adverb TwoSyllable Adverbs (add –ly to an adjective to make an adverb) Example: He is a quick reader. He is a quicker reader than I. He is the quickest reader in the class. He reads quickly. He reads more quickly than I. He reads the most quickly in the class. quick slow rude neat nice kind safe soft loud clear sharp cheap quicker than slower than ruder than neater than nicer than kinder than safer than softer than louder than clearer than sharper than cheaper than the quickest the slowest the rudest the neatest the nicest the kindest the safest the softest the loudest the clearest the sharpest the cheapest quickly slowly rudely neatly nicely kindly safely softly loudly clearly sharply cheaply more quickly than more slowly than more rudely than more neatly than more nicely than more kindly than more safely than more softly than more loudly than more clearly than more sharply than more cheaply than the most quickly the most slowly the most rudely the most neatly the most nicely the most kindly the most safely the most softly the most loudly the most clearly the most sharply the most cheaply Two Syllable Adjectives – second syllable is –y Three Syllable Adverbs (change –y to –ily) easy noisy messy sloppy lazy sleepy happy busy easily noisily messily sloppily lazily sleepily happily busily easier than noisier than messier than sloppier than lazier than sleepier than happier than busier than the easiest the noisiest the messiest the sloppiest the laziest the sleepiest the happiest the busiest more easily than more noisily than more messily than more sloppily than more lazily than more sleepily than more happily than more busily than Two or More Syllable Adjectives – not ending in –y Three or More Syllable Adverbs careful careless graceful fluent stubborn honest polite beautiful carefully carelessly gracefully fluently stubbornly honestly politely beautifully the most easily the most noisily the most messily the most sloppily the most lazily the most sleepily the most happily the most busily more careful than more careless than more graceful than more fluent than more stubborn than more honest than more polite than more beautiful than the most careful the most careless the most graceful the most fluent the most stubborn the most honest the most polite the most beautiful more carefully than more carelessly than more gracefully than more fluently than more stubbornly than more honestly than more politely than more beautifully than the most carefully the most carelessly the most gracefully the most fluently the most stubbornly the most honestly the most politely the most beautifully
- 3. * regular adjective,but irregular in adverb form **”hardly” is a frequency adverb which means “barely” “only a little”; “hard” is an adverb that means “with a lot of effort” or “firm” ***irregular adjective, but regular in adverb form