Integrantes:

ESCUELA SUPERIOR
POLITCNICA DE
Gabriela Miranda

CHIMBORAZO

Level 5rd E

ADVERB CLAUSES
OF DEGREE OR
COMPARISON

ADVERB CLAUSES OF DEGREE OR

COMPARISON
Adverb
clauses
of
degree or comparison answer
the
question how much, how little or how many. The chief conjunctions
used to introduce adverb clauses of degree are as, asas, soas,
than, according to as, according to how
1. Word: As
Example:
You may do as you please
She is not so stupid as you think
Explanation: Both use as and it means the way how you do or
think about something.
2. Word: Than
Example: She is older than her husband.
Explanation: Than is used to compare the age of a women
with the age of her husband
3. Word: Asas
Example: She is as intelligent as she is beautiful.
Explanation: Asas is used to compare two characteristics in
a positive form.
4. Word: Soas
Example: She is not so intelligent as her sister.
Explanation: Soas is used to compare in a negative form and
it used just one characteristic.
5. Word: According to how
Example: She will be paid according to how she works
Explanation: According to how means that her salary depends
on the way how she works.
The correlative thethe may also be considered as a conjunction
introducing adverb clauses of degree.

The older you grow the wiser you become.

The more he earns the more he spends.

Notes
1

In adverb clauses of degree or comparison, the verb is often

understood and not expressed.

I earn as much as you (do).

I can sing as well as he (does).
She is as tall as he (is).
Nobody knows her better than I (do).

Note that when the verb is not expressed it is more common to use
object pronouns after as and than.
Compare:
I can sing as well as him. OR I can sing as well as he does. (More
natural than I can sing as well as he.)
Nobody knows her better than me. OR Nobody knows her
better than I do. (More natural than Nobody knows her better than
I.)

REFERENCES

Ginger,
Grammar
rules,(online):
http://www.gingersoftware.com/content/grammar-rules/adverb/adverbclauses/
Maria English Society, Essential English Grammar, 2007, (online):
http://mariaenglishsociety.hk/ecourse/wpcontent/uploads/2013/10/Grammar11.pdf