Magda  +  267697 Fri, 15 Sep 06 11:46 PM Hi, is it true that most of adverbs don't form comparative and superlative? Thank you Magda Joined on Sat, Sep 9 2006 Full Member 445 Verbs, Adverbs

	Goodman  +  267705 Sat, 16 Sep 06 12:05 AM This is not a clear question. Can you give us some examples. I would guess to say yes based on what  ithought you question is... Goodman Joined on Mon, Nov 7 2005 Senior Member 3,816 The name says it all!

	Goodman  +  267707 Sat, 16 Sep 06 12:08 AM  Magda wrote: Hi, is it true that most of adverbs don't form comparative and superlative? Thank you Your question is too vague and broad. can you give a few examples? I would guess to say "yes" based on what I thought the text of your question was. Goodman Verbs, Adverbs

	Magda  +  267708 Sat, 16 Sep 06 12:12 AM Hi, Goodman. I know how to form comperatives and superlatives of adverbs. However, I found this statement in my grammar book and it made me stop for a moment. I know that some adverbs cannot be compared, e.g today, now, yet, already, just, etc. However, I am not sure if "some" can be called "most". But of course, there may be more adverbs that cannot be compared. Magda Magda Grammar, Verbs, Adverbs

	Goodman  +  267713 Sat, 16 Sep 06 12:38 AM  Magda wrote: Hi, Goodman. I know how to form comperatives and superlatives of adverbs. However, I found this statement in my grammar book and it made me stop for a moment. I know that some adverbs cannot be compared, e.g today, now, yet, already, just, etc. However, I am not sure if "some" can be called "most". But of course, there may be more adverbs that cannot be compared. Magda Then allow me to ask this. In your opinion, do you think More and most can be considered a comparative and superlative? I think so. But not "some" and "most". Goodman Grammar, Verbs, Adverbs

	Magda  +  267714 Sat, 16 Sep 06 12:45 AM Goodman, by most I refered to the statament "most adverbs aren't compared". I know, though, that some adverbs can't be compared (e.g today, now, finally), therefore I asked if we can say that "some" can be called "most". Magda Verbs, Adverbs

	Grammar Geek  +  267723 Sat, 16 Sep 06 01:41 AM Magda, are you comparing adjectives with adverbs? For example, you can say he is happy, happier, or happiest.  But if you say "He is happily married" you can't say "happilier" or happiliest." You have to modify it with something else like "even more happily." That project was big. That one was bigger. That was the biggest. (Three forms of the adjective "big.") But take adverb "hugely." The project was hugely successful. But not hugier successful or hugiest successful. (That project was even more sucessful and other one was the most successful of all.) Does that help answer your question? Grammar Geek Joined on Tue, Jan 10 2006 Veteran Member 19,683 Barbara, who answers in American English. My housekeeping skills attest to the truth of the second law of thermodynamics: Left to themselves, things get more and more random! Verbs, Adverbs

	Alienvoord  +  267725 Sat, 16 Sep 06 01:47 AM Some adverbs can be put into the comparative and superlative. The project was the most hugely successful project of all. This project was more hugely successful than that project. I drive fast. She drives faster. They drive the fastest. She is more happily married than he is. Alienvoord Joined on Tue, Jul 25 2006 Toronto Full Member 345 Verbs, Adverbs

	Grammar Geek  +  267726 Sat, 16 Sep 06 01:51 AM Fast/faster is a great examle of one that can be put into the comparitive. But "more happily" is not a comparative form of the word "happily." I wonder if we can come up with a rule? Are there ANY adverbs that end in -ly that we can make a comparitive form out of? Grammar Geek Verbs, Adverbs