[etni] [FWD: Re: grammar question]

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 Subject: Re: [etni] [FWD: Re: grammar question]]
 From: "adi orian" <austen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 
 A much easier answer is that, except for very few exceptions, the rule
says
 that anything of 3 syllables and above cannot have a suffix (hun-gry-ly
etc.
 have 3). Technical though it may be, it is grammar.


Lev wrote:
>  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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