COMPARATIVE ADVERBS

COMPARATIVE ADVERBS

MORE/LESS +ADVERB

To make comparative forms of adverbs, we use more + adverb (than).This room gets warm more quickly than the rest of the house. You can live more cheaply in other parts of the city.

The opposite of more + adverb is less + adverb. You clean the apartment less often than I do.

Some comparative forms are irregular. They have the same form as the comparative adjective.

For example: well-better high-higher badly-worse early-earlier far-farther late-later fast-faster soon-sooner

(nOT) AS + ADVERB +AS

To make comparisons we also use (not) as + adverb. Not normally goes with the verb. Matt can design houses as well as Tom. (similarity)

The new desing software doesn't work as efficiently as the old one.

COMPARATIVE PATTERNS

To say that a situation is changing we use comparative + and + comparative. We can use a comparative adjective or a comparative adverb in this struecture. It's getting colder and colder - it's probably going to snow.

Houses are becoming more and more expensive every year.

I have so much work that I'm going to bed later and later.

Remember that we add -er to most one syllable adjectives, and we put more before longer adjectives to make the comparative adjective form.

I have so much work that I'm going to bed later and later. And I feel more and more tired everyday.

We often use more and more + noun. More and more people are buying houses outside the city.

To say two things change at the same time, we use the + comparative + clause, the + comparative + cluase. The harder you work the more success you'll have. The more you study the more you'll learn.

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