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He often helps me. | . |
He is always in time for the lessons. | . |
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Ill wait till tomorrow. | . |
Yesterday she left London. | . |
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Ann is quite good at Mathematics. | . |
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She danced beautifully. | . |
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She spoke French well. | . |
He easily translated the text. | . |
(The Degrees of Comparison of Adverbs)
: (The Positive Degree), (The Comparative Degree) (The Superlative Degree).
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1) (early ) -er -est.
fast | faster | fastest () |
hard , | harder , | hardest , () |
early | earlier | earliest () |
2) more, most.
beautifully | more beautifully | most beautifully () |
clearly | more clearly | most clearly () |
3) , .
well | better | best () |
badly | worse | worst () |
much | more | most () |
little | less | least () |
far | farther / further | farthest / furthest () |
EXERCISES
Exercise 1. | Give the comparative and superlative of the following adverbs. |
badly | clearly | far | little | often |
bravely | correctly | fast | long | quickly |
carefully | early | hard | much | slowly |
cautiously | easily | late | near | well |
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Exercise 2. | Give the correct forms of the adverbs in brackets. |
1. | On Mondays I come home ____ (late) than usual. |
2. | The ____ (much) you read in English the ____ (soon) you enlarge your vocabulary. |
3. | Winter, spring, summer, fall: I like winter ____ (well) of all. |
4. | I speak German ____ (fluently) now than last year. |
5. | Our grandfather smiled ____ (happily) than before. |
6. | Planes can fly ____ (high) than birds. |
7. | He worked ____ (hard) than ever before. |
8. | She did the job ____ (badly) of all. |
9. | They normally play much ____ (well). |
10. | The car went ____ (fast) and ____ (fast). |
Exercise 3. | Choose the appropriate word |
1. | The tunnels of the London Tube are dug ____ deep / deeply below the surface of the earth. |
2. | The bird flew ____ high / highly, we could ____ hard / hardly see it. |
3. | She came to the party ____ pretty / prettily dressed. |
4. | She loved her students ____ dear / dearly. |
5. | His poetry is ____ wide / widely known throughout the world. |
6. | I am ____ deep / deeply interested in the happy conclusion of this problem. |
7. | Tom Smith was a ____ hard / hardly patient to cure. |
8. | She is a ____ high / highly educated woman. |
9. | You paid too ____ dear / dearly for this pair of shoes. |
10. | You will have to work real ____ hard / hardly to get everything done as planned. |
Exercise 4. | State whether the words in bold type are adjectives or adverbs. Translate the sentences into Russian. |
1. | a) He stayed a long time with us. b) He stayed long with us. |
2. | a) The patient breathed hard. b) He had had a hard day at the hospital and was tired out. |
3. | a) He returned late yesterday. b) He returned in the late autumn. |
4. | a) Moving fast made you thirsty. b) He could reach London quicker on a fast river ship. |
5. | a) Well get to sleep; we want to get an early start tomorrow. b) The next day I woke up very early. |
6. | a) At the far end of the room there was nothing. b) There is no need to go far. |
7. | a) I could hear from the stairs that they were talking very loud. b) But at that moment a loud knocking was heard at the hall door. |
8. | a) Do you have plans to expand or upgrade it in the near future? b) They met the next day in the woods near Dannys house. |
(The Numeral)
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(Cardinal Numerals) (Ordinal Numerals).
how many? ? : one , two , three . .
which??: first , second , third . .