Comparative and Superlative Forms of Adverbs in English Grammar

An adverb is a part of speech that modifies a verb, an adjective, and another adverb.

In English grammar, adverbs can also have comparative and superlative forms - just like adjectives. Comparative adverbs are used to compare two things and superlative adverbs are used for comparing three or more things.

Rule 1: When making comparative and superlative forms of adverbs ending in -ly, we use more to form the comparative, and most to form the superlative.

Here are a few examples:

Note: With a superlative, we use the article the to indicate there is only one.

Rule 2: Comparative and superlative forms of short adverbs that do not end in -ly are identical to adjectives: use the structure adverb + -er to form the comparative and adverb + -est to form the superlative.

Like this:

Note: If the adverb ends in e, remove it before adding the ending.

Rule 3: Some adverbs have irregular comparative and superlative forms - we need to memorize them.