With this blog post from EnglishBix, you would get to learn about comparative and superlative adverbs and what are their applications. You can also see the examples given below to get good understanding of the words.
Comparative and Superlative Adverbs: Formation Rules and List
Here we have a list of three rules you should keep in mind while changing forms of adverbs.
- Some Irregular adverbs have irregular comparative and superlative forms for example well > better > best.
- If Adverb is ending in -ly you must add more to form the comparative, and most to form the superlative. for example: carefully > more carefully > most carefully.
- With short adverbs that do not end with -ly comparative and superlative forms are identical to adjectives: add -er to form the comparative and -est to form the superlative. for example: hard > harder > hardest.
following is a tabular list of comparative and superlative form of different types of adverbs.
| Adverbs | Comparative Form | Superlative Form |
| badly | worse | worst |
| well | better | best |
| little | less | least |
| carefully | more carefully | most carefully |
| sweetly | more sweetly | most sweetly |
| quietly | more quietly | most quietly |
| deep | deeper | deepest |
| hard | harder | hardest |
| long | longer | longest |
| fast | faster | fastest |
Here are few examples how comparative and superlative form of adverbs are used in sentences.
- The team performed worse in volleyball as compared to last year.
- It was the worst performance of the Indian volleyball team to date.
- A bright, ambitious kid just out of technical school, learning railroading from the ground up.
- He was brighter than any other student in the technical school.
- In the international competition, he proved himself to be the brightest among everyone who participated in the technical field.
- Cay and Maxwell were close friends and Cay acted as his best man when Maxwell married.
- Cay and Maxwell were closer to each other as compared to any other member of the group.
- They proved to be closest friends even after 10 years of gap in their communication.
- The fact about the bankruptcy of a firm was hidden deep in the report, almost as an afterthought.
- When they dug deeper while investigating, they were able to identify the problem behind the entire mishap.
- All the culprits were caught when the investigation was at the deepest level.