The document discusses adverbs, including what they are, how they modify verbs and other words, and their degrees of comparison. It provides examples of sentences containing adverbs and identifies the word each adverb modifies. It explains the three degrees of comparison for adverbs - positive, comparative, superlative. The positive degree does not indicate comparison, while comparative compares two things and superlative compares more than two. Most one-syllable adverbs form comparisons with -er/-est endings, while most two-syllable adverbs use more/less or most/least.

1. Comparison of
Adverb
Prepared by: Mary Kai V. Tolentino
BEED-III

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.The adverb ismodifying

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

6. Find the adverb in the following sentences
and identify the word it modifies.
The children sang loudly.
This the adverb
Modifying the verb

7. Let me introduce you to....

8. Paul says….
I run fast.

9. Eric says…
I run faster.

10. Mark says…
I run fastest
of all.

11. What are the
boys doing?

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

13. Lets analyse the following examples.
Positive Comparative Superlative
hard harder hardest
gracefully less / more
gracefully
least/most
gracefully
little less least

14. How many degrees of comparison
are there?
Adverbs have three degrees of
comparison
positive,
comparative,
 superlative.

15. 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.

16. 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

17. Thank you!!!