[etni] [FWD: Re: grammar question]]

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 Subject: Re: [etni] [FWD: grammar question]
 From: Lev Abramov <lev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 
 being a humble non-native speaker ;-), I can only rely on what I was 
 taught in school. Please excuse the prescriptive approach - go figure, 
 some native speaker may go as far as saying "quicklier" is kosher in 
 Oklahoma or Portland :)
 
 OK, here goes:
 
 1. there are adverbs (quick, hungry, pretty, angry) and adverbs 
 (quickly, hungrily, prettily, angrily).
 2. comparative degrees of shorter adjectives (like the ones above) are 
 formed by adding the ending -er (quicker, hungrier, prettier, angrier)
 3. comparative degrees of adverbs (no matter what length they are) are 
 formed by adding the word "more" (more quickly, more hungrily, more 
 prettily, more angrily)
 
 Consequently, we can come across both "quicker" (adjective) and "more 
 quickly" (adverb) - but not *"quicklier."
 
 Examples:
 
 His face was angry - even angrier (adj) than hers.
 He looked at me angrily, and spoke to me even more angrily (adv).
 
 HTH
 
 Have I missed smth?
 
 Lev
 
 
You wrote:
>Why do we write "more quickly" and not quicklier"? (It appeared on one
>of the modules--C, I believe)   (Is it an exception from hungrier,
>prettier, angrier?)


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