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Made of a compound of within, without, before, beneath
preposition and adverb
Adverbs derived from pronouns Time related: then, when

Place related: there, here, where
Manner related: this, how

Pronoun based adverb Thereby, therefrom, therein, therewith, thereafter.
compounded with prepositions hereby, hereafter, herein, hereupon, herewith,
hereto, wherefore, wherein, whereon, whereof,
henceforth, henceforward.
Two adverbs sometimes go again and again, by and by, far and near, first and
together formed by a conjunction. foremost, how and then out and out, over and above,
through and through.

Practice Time 1

A. Complete the table given below on the degrees of comparison of adverbs.

Positive Comparative Superlative

hard hardest
less

faster fastest
well better

badly worst
sweetly most sweetly

late

more
soon soonest

B. Frame sentences using the given pairs of nouns and the comparative forms of adverbs in Adverbs: Degrees of Comparison
brackets.

1. tortoise — rabbit (slowly)
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2. elephant — cheetah (fast)
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3. fox — sheep (cunningly)
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4. lamb — wolf (brutally)
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5. India — Sri Lanka (very)
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