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Aziz

Feb 20, 2013 - 5:14AM

article before superlative forms of adverbs

Tom ran ... at the race yesterday.
A) fastest B) the fasterst
Which answer is correct? Please, help.

Tomster

Apr 21, 2013 - 2:19PM

Re: article before superlative forms of adverbs

I think both are understandable and therefore OK. I would say 'in the race' rather than 'at the race', though. I would also use 'was' rather than 'ran', i.e. would say 'Tom was the fastest in the race yesterday'.