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comparison of adverbs More slowly, please.
To make the comparative of most adverbs: more + adverb (. . . than)
Can you speak more quietly, please? I'm working more slowly today than yesterday.
Angela writes more clearly than Ellie.
Write sentences with comparative adverbs and than.
► Jacob drives / dangerously / Sam
drives vwort davu^erovtsly thfliA ,S>avw.
1 Lee talks to people/politely / Ben
2 Liam works/carefully/John
3 Simon goes swimming/often / Karen
4 My car runs / quietly / my sister's car
5 Annie talks/slowly/Rob
6 Olivia thinks / clearly / most people
7 Jack dresses / expensively / me
8 I live/cheaply/my friends
Some short adverbs have comparatives with -er, like adjectives. Examples: early, late, fast, hard, high,
long, near and soon.
I got to the station earlier than Mary. Bill lives nearer to school than Pete, so he gets up later.
Irregular comparatives: well —► better badly —► worse far—>* further/farther
little —► less a lot/much —► more
My mother drives better than my father. He sings badly, but I sing worse.
She talks less than he does, but she thinks more. I live further from the centre than you.
Use the comparatives of the adverbs in the box to complete the advice.
early fast hard / high late little long much near
► 'I want to earn more money.' 'Work .............'
1 'I want to eat my breakfast slowly in the morning.' 'Get up
2 'I want to get more sleep.''Get up
3 'I want to be stronger.' 'Exercise
4 'I hate driving to work.' 'Live..............................to your work and walk.'
5 'I get a lot of headaches.''Try to worry
6 'I'm afraid I'm going to miss the train.' 'Walk
7 'I'm no good at basketball.' 'Practise jumping
8 'I want to learn everything there is.' 'Live
Sentences with superlative adverbs (for example John drives the most dangerously) are not very common.
In some answers, both contracted forms (for example I'm, don't) and full COMPARISON 227
forms (for example / am, do not) are possible. Normally both are correct.
