comparative and superlative adverbs COMPARATIVE ADVERBS What is a comparative adverb? A comparative adverb is one which, in English, has -er on the end of it or more or less in front of it, for example, earlier , later , more/less often. Adverbs can be used to make comparisons in Spanish, just as they can in English. The comparative of adverbs ( more often , more efficiently , faster ) is formed using the same phrases as for adjectives: • más ... (que) more ... (than) más rápido ( que ) faster (than), more quickly (than) Corre más rápido que tú. He runs faster than you do. • menos ... (que) less ... (than) menos rápido ( que ) less fast (than), less quickly (than) Conduce menos rápido que tú. He drives less fast than you do. SUPERLATIVE ADVERBS What is a superlative adverb? A superlative adverb is one which, in English, has -est on the e...
PRESENT PERFECT The present perfect tense refers to an action or state that either occurred at an indefinite time in the past (e.g., we have talked before) or began in the past and continued to the present time (e.g., he has grown impatient over the last hour). This tense is formed by have/has + the past participle. He construction of this verb tense is straightforward. The first element is have or has , depending on the subject the verb is conjugated with. The second element is the past participle of the verb, which is usually formed by adding -ed or -d to the verb’s root (e.g., walked, cleaned, typed, perambulated, jumped, laughed, sautéed) although English does have quite a few verbs that have irregular past participles (e.g., done, said, gone, known, won, thought, felt, eaten). EJEMPLOS These examples show how the present perfect can describe something that occurred or was the state of things at an unspecified ...
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