Adverbs are words that provide more information about verbs by describing manner, place, time, degree, or frequency. Adverbs can show degree in a comparative or superlative form to indicate more or most of a quality such as much, little, fast, or carefully.

1. Adverbs
Adverbs are words that tell us more about verbs.
Adverbs can tell us about:
Degree
Manner Place Time Frequency
(to what
(how) (where) (when) (how often)
extent)
immediately, frequently,
fast, quickly, near, far, here, quite, nearly,
then, soon, occasionally,
hungrily, excitedly there, up, down hardly, extremely
tomorrow often
She
Lucy did the The family live James did it I could hardly occasionally
work carefully. locally. yesterday. speak. visits the
museum.
A comparative adverb provides degrees of comparison.
Adverb Comparative Superlative
much more the most
Jake didn’t earn much. Hugh earned more. Adam earned the most.
little less the least
Lucy did little work. Mary did less work. Emma did the least work.
the fastest
fast faster
The sports car went
The sedan went fast. The truck went faster.
the fastest.
carefully more carefully the most carefully
Sophie rode carefully. Sonia rode more carefully. Sally rode the most carefully.
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