Unit 12
Comparative and superlative adverbs
Comparative adverbs compare two actions. • Short adverbs: Frog danced faster than Miss Mango. • Adverbs ending in ‘ly’ : Miss Mango sang more sweetly than Frog. Superlative adverbs compare more than two actions. • Short adverbs: Mongoose danced the fastest. • Adverbs ending in ‘ly’ : The hummingbirds sang the most sweetly . 6 Complete these sentences with comparative adverbs. Example: Tortoise moved more slowly (slow) than Snake. 1 Mr. Jackfruit behaved _______ (polite) than Frog.
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2 Snake danced _______ (quick) than Turtle. 3 Mongoose danced _______ (good) than Turtle. 4 The monkeys arrived _______ (early) than Mongoose. 5 Tortoise danced _________ (clumsy) than everyone else. 6 Mr. Jackfruit danced _______ (bad) than Miss Mango. 7 Miss Mango dressed _______ (smart) than Mr. Potato. 8 Frog arrived _______ (late) than Mr. Jackfruit. 9 The macaws sang _______ (loud) than Snake. 10 Frog could jump _______ (far) than Agouti.
Irregular adverbs well – better – best
badly – worse – worst much – more – most far – further – furthest Note: early – earlier – earliest
7 Complete the paragraph with comparative or superlative adverbs.
Miss Mango arrived the earliest (early) at the party. The other animals arrived _______ ( 1 late) than she did. Miss Mango danced _______ ( 2 well) than the other fruits. Mr. Jackfruit was not a good dancer, but of all the animals, Mr. Turtle danced the _______ ( 3 bad). Snake danced _______ ( 4 elegant) than the other animals. The hummingbirds sang the _______ ( 5 tuneful). As the evening went on the monkeys drummed more and _______ ( 6 noisy). Soon all the animals began to dance_______ ( 7 fast). At the end, everyone agreed that Mongoose had danced the _______ ( 8 well).
• Exercise 6: Point out that the words in brackets are adjectives. Students must change these into adverbs before writing the comparative forms. • Exercise 7: Help students to see which adverbs are comparative and which are superlative, e.g. No.2 compares Miss Mango to the other dancers, No.3 compares all the dancers.
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