Exercise 9.Choose the necessary word.
1. The treasure was buried (deep/deeply) underground.
2. He is (deep/deeply) in love with her.
3. The hotel guests can use the swimming pool (free/freely).
4. The animals in the safari park can roam (free/freely).
5. The kite flew (high/highly) in the sky.
6. He is a (high/highly) respected doctor.
7. She arrived (late/lately) for the meeting.
8. He hasn’t been feeling well (late/lately).
9. As he came (near/nearly), I realized that something was wrong.
10. She (near/nearly) fainted when she heard the news.
11. He is a (pretty/prettily) strange man.
12. She is always (pretty/prettily) dressed.
13. He is working (hard/hardly) these days.
14. They (hard/hardly) go anywhere now that they have children.
15. Which of his songs do you like (most/mostly)?
16. I’m (most/mostly) interested in modern art.
17. He lives quite (near/nearly).
18. You’ve come too (late/lately).
19. The mechanic examined the damaged car (close/closely).
20. It is (pretty/prettily) difficult to speak to her.
21. We have seen very little of you (late/lately).
22. I used to work (hard/hardly) to get everything I have got now.
23. His suggestion seemed (high/highly) improbable to us.
24. Her house stood (close/closely) to the river.
25. The wind was blowing so (hard/hardly) that I could (hard/hardly) walk.
26. The plane flew (high/highly), we could (hard/hardly) see it.
27. (Short/Shortly) after graduating I moved to the capital.
DEGREES OF COMPARISON OF ADVERBS
· Most adverbs are invariable. But certain adverbs of manner can change for degrees of comparison.
· The degrees of comparison of adverbs are formed in the same way as those of adjectives.
ü Monosyllabic adverbs and the adverb early form the comparative and the superlative degrees by adding the suffixes -er and --est.
e. g. hard - harder - hardest
near - nearer - nearest
soon - sooner - soonest
early - earlier - earliest
ü The degrees of comparison of all other adverbs are formed by placing more and most before them.
e. g. beautifully - more beautifully - most beautifully
quickly - more quickly - most quickly
cautiously - more cautiously - most cautiously
cleverly - more cleverly - most cleverly
ü A few adverbs have irregular degrees of comparison.
e. g. well - better - best
badly - worse - worst
much - more - most
little - less - least
N.B.! Notice that it is only the comparative degree of adverbs that is actually found in English.
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e. g. He ran faster than the wind.
Little Martha danced even more beautifully than her sister.
In the combinations most beautifully, most wisely, etc. most is an adverb of degree denoting very.
It is only the superlatives best, most and worst that are actually found in English.
e. g. John’s sister Marian was very nice to me, and I liked her best of them all.
None of us played well, but Jack played worst that day.
EXERCISES
Exercise 1. Give the comparative and the superlative of the following adverbs.
Fast, hard, late, slowly, carefully, clearly, fluently, regularly, intensively, well, closely, far, little, long, much, early, badly, often, near, fast.
Exercise 2. Open the brackets, give the comparative or the superlative of the following adverbs.
1. I like the black dress (well) than that one.
2. Now she visits them (frequently) than last year.
3. Our new car is (fast) than the old one.
4. Which of these books did you enjoy (much)?
5. Now I can hear you (clearly) than before.
6. You ought to have told me (much).
7. Who works (hard), Mike, Pete or Jack?
8. The fire was put out (quickly) than we expected.
9. He speaks English (fluently) of all in my class.
Exercise 3. Complete the following sentences with the adverbs in the comparative and superlative forms. (You can use the word only once).
| carefully | easily | frequently | late | long | loud | smartly | near | fast | well |
Example: I was afraid to go ___than halfway up the tower. – I was afraid to go higher than halfway up the tower.
1. I could have found the place ___if I had had a map.
2. We were tired and we all envied Mary, because she lived ___.
3. I like this picture ___of all.
4. Why are you wearing these old jeans? You might have dressed___.
5. You needn't go away yet. You can stay a bit___.
6. To get to London by nine, we can't leave___ than seven. It takes two hours.
7. There are a lot of robberies in our city. They happen ___nowadays than before.
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8. Do it again ___and you won't make so many mistakes.
9. We can’t hear you well. Could you speak a bit___?
10. We all ran pretty fast, but Andrew ran ___than me, and Sam ran___.
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