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adverbscomparativegrammarsuperlatives

I know when to use an adjective as comparative or superlative.

Example –

This is an easy job.

This is easier than the previous one.

This is the easiest.

And when this way, we can't derive comparative or superlative form, we use much/more and most.

This is okay for me. But when I need to use adverb in comparative or superlative form, like this –

Example –

This is done easily.

This is done more easily than I thought.

Is "more easily" correct? Or is there any other way to construct comparative and superlative form of an adverb?

Best Answer

Both of your examples

This is done easily.

This is done more easily than I thought.

are grammatically correct.

However, I would personally consider both sentences to be slightly awkward or incomplete, since you could express the same ideas using adjectives. If you had no more details to add, then more natural expressions might be

This is easy.

This task is easy.

This was easier than I thought.

This job was easier than I thought.

The original examples would also be fine if there were more details to complete the sentence, so that there is a reason to use the adverbial form rather than the simpler adjectives that I proposed above.

Calculating this antiderivative is easily done using integration by parts.

Calculating this antiderivative is more easily done using a trigonometric substitution.

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