[etni] [FWD: Re: grammar question]

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 Subject: Re: grammar question]
 From: "Maxine" <maxine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 
 Although all the words you mentioned end in "y" there's a 
big difference  between "quickly" and the others.   
"Quickly", as opposed to "hungry",  "pretty" and "angry" is 
an adverb and the "er" and "est" endings aren't used for "ly" 
adverbs.   
(the rule doesn't always apply to the NON "LY" adverbs such 
as "fast" :   "He is driving faster than any other car on the road".)
 
   Hope this helps!   Regards, Maxine Tsvaigrach


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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