📚Comparison of adverbs📚
Like the comparison of adjectives, adverbs have three degrees of comparison:
the Positive, the Comparative, and the Superlative.
Most adverbs end in –ly, and they form the Comparative with more and the superlative with most.
📕 The team played brilliantly against a stronger opponent. (Positive)
📗 The team has to play more passionately to win more matches. (Comparative)
📘 The team needs another striker in order to play most effectively. (Superlative)
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Like the comparison of adjectives, adverbs have three degrees of comparison:
the Positive, the Comparative, and the Superlative.
Most adverbs end in –ly, and they form the Comparative with more and the superlative with most.
📕 The team played brilliantly against a stronger opponent. (Positive)
📗 The team has to play more passionately to win more matches. (Comparative)
📘 The team needs another striker in order to play most effectively. (Superlative)
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✨Tricky adverbs✨
Bad or badly? Sweet or sweetly?🤔
If the verb being modified refers to using the eyes, nose, mouth, or hands (see/smell/taste/feel), use the –ly word.
🔹Roses smell sweet/sweetly.🤔
➡️The roses aren’t smelling with their noses, so sweet is correct.✅
🔹The woman looked angry/angrily.🤔
➡️We aren’t talking about how she used her eyes, so angry is correct.✅
🔹The woman looked angry/angrily at the spot on the carpet.🤔
➡️The woman is using her eyes, so angrily is correct.✅
🔹She feels bad/badly about the news.🤔
➡️She is expressing emotion, not feeling with her hand, so bad is correct.✅
🔺But: We performed badly. Describes how we performed.
🔹The fish tastes different/differently today.🤔
➡️Different because the fish is not tasting anything.✅
🔹Don’t take it personal/personally.🤔
➡️Personally because we are modifying take, not it!✅
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Bad or badly? Sweet or sweetly?🤔
If the verb being modified refers to using the eyes, nose, mouth, or hands (see/smell/taste/feel), use the –ly word.
🔹Roses smell sweet/sweetly.🤔
➡️The roses aren’t smelling with their noses, so sweet is correct.✅
🔹The woman looked angry/angrily.🤔
➡️We aren’t talking about how she used her eyes, so angry is correct.✅
🔹The woman looked angry/angrily at the spot on the carpet.🤔
➡️The woman is using her eyes, so angrily is correct.✅
🔹She feels bad/badly about the news.🤔
➡️She is expressing emotion, not feeling with her hand, so bad is correct.✅
🔺But: We performed badly. Describes how we performed.
🔹The fish tastes different/differently today.🤔
➡️Different because the fish is not tasting anything.✅
🔹Don’t take it personal/personally.🤔
➡️Personally because we are modifying take, not it!✅
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🔺Along or alongside?🔻
Along and alongside are #prepositions or #adverbs.
⚪️Along
As a preposition, along means ‘in a line next to something long and thin’, e.g. a road, a path:
➖There were lots of shops along the main street.
➖I saw three different boats along the bank of the river.
✨We use along as an adverb with verbs of motion meaning ‘together with’:
➖Why don’t you come along with us to the party?
➖They said they’d bring the bikes along and we can ride to the swimming pool.
⚫️Alongside
As a preposition, alongside means ‘close beside’, ‘next to’ or ‘together with’:
➖The trees alongside the fence have all been damaged by the wind. (near)
➖Put your bike alongside mine. (next to)
➖I find it difficult to cope with this illness alongside all my other problems. (together with)
✨We also use alongside as an adverb, meaning ‘along the side of’ or ‘next to’ something:
➖I parked my car in the drive and William parked his alongside.
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Along and alongside are #prepositions or #adverbs.
⚪️Along
As a preposition, along means ‘in a line next to something long and thin’, e.g. a road, a path:
➖There were lots of shops along the main street.
➖I saw three different boats along the bank of the river.
✨We use along as an adverb with verbs of motion meaning ‘together with’:
➖Why don’t you come along with us to the party?
➖They said they’d bring the bikes along and we can ride to the swimming pool.
⚫️Alongside
As a preposition, alongside means ‘close beside’, ‘next to’ or ‘together with’:
➖The trees alongside the fence have all been damaged by the wind. (near)
➖Put your bike alongside mine. (next to)
➖I find it difficult to cope with this illness alongside all my other problems. (together with)
✨We also use alongside as an adverb, meaning ‘along the side of’ or ‘next to’ something:
➖I parked my car in the drive and William parked his alongside.
#Confusing_words
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