This document provides a summary of adverbs in English and examples of their use. It discusses how adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs to express things like manner, degree, time and place. Specifically, it notes that adverbs ending in "-ly" indicate manner and provides examples comparing items equally and in different degrees using comparative and superlative adverbs. Practice exercises are included to reinforce the concepts.

1. Escuela de Educación Continua
Repaso para la Prueba de Evaluación
y Admisión Universitaria
(College Board)
INGLÉS
Parts of the Speech
Adverbs
Preparado por
Prof. Carmen Cembalest, Enero 1994
Revisado por
Prof. Thelvenitsie Hernández, Junio 2006

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3. IV. Adverbs - modify verbs, adjectives or other adverbs. They explain how or to what
degree. Adverbs that indicate manner end in ___ly.
Examples:
He arrived yesterday. (Answers when)
The car is there. (Answers where)
Peter worked diligently. (Answers how)
The children felt very sad. (Modifies an adjective)
Luis speaks quickly. (Modifies a verb)
We spoke very softly. (Modifies another adverb)
1. Adverbs of manner are used to express comparison.
1. Equal Comparison – compare equal two units
Example: Luis drives as fast as Ramon.
2. Comparative Degree – compare two units, in an unequal degree
Example: Luis drives faster than Ramon.
Adverb consists of more than one syllable:
More (adverb) than
Example: Luis drives more carefully than Ramon.
3. Superlative Degree – compare more than two unit, in an unequal degree
Example: Luis drives the fastest in the family.
Adverb consists of more than one syllable:
The most (adverb)
Example: Luis drives the most carefully in the family.
4. Irregular comparative and superlative forms of adverbs.
Adverb Comparative Superlative
late later than the latest
fast faster than the fastest
early earlier than the earliest
hard harder than the hardest
well better than the best
badly worse than the worst

4. Practice Exercises VII
Choose the correct alternative to complete the statement.
1. You must handle the baby _________________.
a. gently
b. gentler
c. more gentle
d. gentle
2. We helped Betty _______________.
a. willing
b. willingly
c. most willingly
d. the more willingly
3. This car runs very ________________.
a. smoothly
b. smoothlier
c. smoothlily
d. smooth
4. The new secretary types _________________.
a. accurate
b. accurately
c. accuratelly
d. more accurate
5. My pen writes ______________ yours.
a. worse than
b. worst than
c. more bad than
d. more badly than
6. The teacher explained the lesson ___________________.
a. good
b. better than
c. well
d. more good than
7. Luis ran _______________ of all the participants.
a. the most fast
b. more fastly than
c. faster than
d. the fastest

5. 8. John speaks English _________________.
a. fluent
b. most fluently than
c. fluentlier
d. fluently
9. John behaves _____________________ his brother.
a. selfishly
b. more selfishly than
c. the most selfishly
d. more selfish than
10. My sister drives ____________________ my brother.
a. the most careful
b. more carefully than
c. carefullier than
d. more careful than
11. You always arrive _________________ of all.
a. the latest
b. the most late
c. lately than
d. later than
12. Thomas works ________________ Antonio.
a. hard
b. more hardly than
c. harder than
d. the hardest
13. It rains about 65 inches a year in San Juan and about 40 inches in New York City. In
San Juan, it rains __________________ in New York City.
a. the least
b. less than
c. as much as
d. more than
14. A train travels _________________ a car.
a. more fast than
b. the most fast
c. fastly than
d. faster than