7.4 Comparison of adverbs Only gradable adverbs have degrees of comparison. Most adverbs stand outside the degrees of comparison. For example: daily, extremely, then, now etc. There is the positive adverb, comparative and superlative degree. There are three categories of how adjectives take comparative and superlative degrees. 1) Inflectional – Adverbs that change by taking suffixes. For example: Fast, faster, fastest 2) Periphrastic – Adverbs that take degrees by words more and most. For example: easily, more easily, most easily 3) Suppletive – Adverbs that take degrees of comparison by changing the root. For example: badly, worse, worst; little, less, least Comparison to the same degree. For example: as ... as/ not as/so ... as: She dances as well as her friend./She can’t dance as well as her. 7
Nearly everybody came to our party. They recovered roughly half their equipment. Virtually all the students participated in the discussion. Modifier of NPs We had quite a party. They will be here for quite some time. It was rather a mess. Postmodifying adverbs the day before the way ahead Adverbs as complements of a preposition. over here near there from abroad till then Degrees of comparison: - inflectional - periphrastic - suppletive Most adverbs stand outside the degrees of comparison. Semnatic classification: Adverbs of place, time, manner, degree, etc. 9. Types of phrases, clause structures, verb complementation, syntactic functions of clause elements: subject, object, complement, adverbial; the four characteristics of clause elements (form, position, syntactic function, semantic properties); main semantic roles of clause elements. Types of phrases: Noun phrase:
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