Adjectives, adverbs & comparison from A1 to C2

adjective order · adverbs · comparison · intensifiers

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# 5 Adjectives, adverbs & comparison ## A1 - Adverbs of frequency: always, usually, often, sometimes, rarely, never - Frequency adverbs: before the main verb, after be - How often…? every day, twice a week, once a month - Adjectives before nouns (a red car) and after be (The car is red) - Adjectives don't change for plural (two red cars) - very and really + adjective - too = more than is good (too hot) ## A2 - Comparatives with -er (cheaper, bigger, happier) - Comparatives with more (more expensive) - Irregular comparatives: good–better, bad–worse, far–farther/further - than + pronoun (taller than me / than I am) - elder vs older - Superlatives: the -est / the most - the best in the world / of all - the best … I've ever… - less / the least - as … as / not as … as - the same as, similar to, different from - as soon as possible, as much as you can - too + adjective; adjective + enough; enough + noun - very vs too - Adverbs of manner: -ly (quickly, carefully) - Adverb spelling: happy–happily, gentle–gently, basic–basically - good → well; fast, hard, late have no -ly - Adjective or adverb? (a careful driver / drives carefully) - -ed vs -ing adjectives (bored / boring) - already, yet, still - just (= a moment ago; = only) - also, too, as well, either - Comparative and superlative adverbs (faster, more carefully, the best) - a lot, a bit, much, very much after verbs (I like it a lot; It helps a bit) ## B1 - so + adjective; such (a) + adjective + noun - too / enough + (for somebody) + to (too hot to drink, old enough to drive) - much / far / a lot / a bit / slightly / even + comparative - comparative + and + comparative (more and more, bigger and bigger) - the … the … (The more you practice, the better you get) - fewer vs less - No double comparatives (more better ✗) - Front, mid and end position of adverbs - only, even, just, also: where they go - Manner – place – time (She sang beautifully at the concert last night) - probably / definitely with negatives (He probably won't…) - Adjective order: opinion before fact; size – age – color - Adverbs after prepositions (from here, until now, since then, by then) - any / no + comparative (no better; any longer) ## B2 - Gradable vs non-gradable adjectives (very cold / absolutely freezing) - Intensifiers: very, really, extremely, absolutely, completely, utterly, totally, highly - Softeners: quite, fairly, rather, pretty, a bit, slightly - quite in American vs British English - Full adjective order: opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, purpose - Compound adjectives (well-known, five-star, open-minded) - Adjectives only after a verb (asleep, alive, afraid, alone) - Adjectives only before a noun (main, only, elder, chief) - twice / three times as … as - by far / easily + superlative - nowhere near / not nearly as … as - like vs as (as a teacher / like a teacher; like me / as I do) - Adverbs with two forms: hard/hardly, late/lately, high/highly, near/nearly, most/mostly, free/freely - almost, nearly, hardly - Comment adverbs (fortunately, apparently, honestly, hopefully) - still, yet, anymore, no longer - Adjectives after nouns and pronouns (something interesting, the people involved, the president elect) - Commas and and between adjectives (a big, old house; tall and dark) ## C1 - Viewpoint adverbs (economically, technically speaking) - only / even: position changes the meaning - Adverb + adjective collocations (highly unlikely, deeply concerned, bitterly disappointed) - Order and position of several adverbials - Adjective + preposition / that / to (sure of, sure that, sure to) - easy to please (adjective + to with an object gap) - worth + -ing (worth seeing) - It's kind of you vs It's important for you - all the more, none the less, the better for it - more of a … than; not so much … as - as … as ever / as … as can be - Adjectives whose meaning depends on position (the responsible person / the person responsible) - Adjectives as sentence adjuncts (More importantly, Worse still, Strange to say) - Adverbs modifying adverbs, prepositions and noun phrases (right past me, well over ten, almost home) ## C2 - Scope and placement of adverbials (I only eat fish on Fridays) - Adjuncts, disjuncts and conjuncts - The split infinitive (to boldly go)

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