Delhi University has a strong student’s union.To better understand we will form three sentences using the word ‘strong’, in all the three forms. Therefore, in the above three sentences- quick, quicker and quickest are the positive, comparative and superlative Adverbs of comparison respectively. Now, turning to the third sentence we know that the response of Ram is being compared with more than one person and therefore a word ‘quickest’ is used. The second sentence compares the responses of Ram to that of Punit and declares Ram’s response to be ‘quicker’ than Punit. The first sentence generally compares or gives the impression of Ram’s response with comparing it with someone else’s. Ram’s response was the quickest of all.īefore we start analyzing the above sentences, there are few things that we must keep in mind- quick is a two syllable word like big, long, cool, strong etc.Ram’s response was quicker than Punit’s.

To better understand the three Adverbs of Comparison we will analyze few sentences using them. Some examples of superlative adverbs are-quickest, biggest, longest, deepest, strongest and coolest. Superlative adverbs are used to compare two or more things together and end with ‘est’.

What is comparative adverb