This document discusses adverbs and their degrees of comparison. It defines an adverb as a word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb. It explains that adverbs have three degrees of comparison: positive, comparative, and superlative. The positive degree makes no comparison, comparative compares two things, and superlative compares more than two things. Most one-syllable adverbs form the comparative and superlative by adding -er and -est, while most multiple-syllable adverbs use more/less or most/least. Some adverbs have irregular forms.

1. COMPARING
ADVERBS

2. WHAT IS AN ADVERB?
Adverb is a word that
modifies a verb, an
adjective or another
adverb.

3. Find the adverb in the following sentences
and identify the word it modifies.
We live temporarily
in this world.

4. Find the adverb in the following sentences
and identify the word it modifies.
We live temporarily
in this world.

5. Find the adverb in the following sentences
and identify the word it modifies.
The secretary read
her report briefly

6. Find the adverb in the following sentences
and identify the word it modifies.
The secretary read
her report briefly

7. Find the adverb in the following sentences
and identify the word it modifies.
The policemen
arrived shortly
after the incident.

8. Find the adverb in the following sentences
and identify the word it modifies.
The policemen
arrived shortly
after the incident.

9. Find the adverb in the following sentences
and identify the word it modifies.
The children sang
loudly.

10. Find the adverb in the following sentences
and identify the word it modifies.
The children sang
loudly.

11. Let me introduce you to....

12. Paul says...
I run
fast.

13. Eric says....
I run faster.

14. And Marc also says....
I run fastest
of all.

15. What are the boys doing?

16. Paul: “I run fast.”
Eric: “I run faster.”
Marc: “I run fastest of all.”
What do the underlined words
show or describe?

17. Lets analyze the following examples.
Positive Comparative Superlative
hard harder hardest
gracefully
less
gracefully
least
gracefully
more most
little less least

18. How many degrees of
comparison are there?
Adverbs have three degrees of
comparison – positive,
comparative, and superlative.

19. There is no comparison
made in the positive degree.
In the comparative degree,
two things are being
compared.
In the superlative degree,
more than two things are
compared.

20. Most adverbs with one syllable
form their comparison by adding –er
or –est.
Most adverbs with two or more
syllables use more/less or most/least
to for their comparative and
superlative form.
Some adverbs have irregular
comparative and superlative forms

21. Adverbs have three degrees of comparison – positive,
comparative, and superlative.
There is no comparison made in the positive degree.
In the comparative degree, two things are being
compared.
In the superlative degree, more than two things are
compared.
Most adverbs with one syllable form their comparison
by adding –er or –est.
Most adverbs with two or more syllables use more/less
or most/least to for their comparative and superlative
form.
Some adverbs have irregular comparative and
superlative forms