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CrazYgeek,

(1) I may (repeat: may) have found what you are looking for.

(2) Mr. Michael Swan in his very popular Practical English Usage

says that in informal English (the language of ordinary people),

English speakers often use the comparative/superlative adjective for the

comparative/superlative adverb. Mr. Swan mentions:

easy

slow

loud

quick

(3) In other words, "book English" requires: Let me do the job.

I can do that job more easily than he (can).

But in the real world of real, ordinary speakers, we often hear:

Let me do the job. I can do that job easier than him.

(The books tell us that "easier" is only an adjective: Is English

easier than French?)

(4) "Book English": In my family, Mona eats the most slowly of all.

In "real English": Mona eats the slowest of all.

(The books tell us that "the slowest" is only an adjective: What is the

slowest train that I can take to Hanoi?)

(5) And I think most people (especially in an emergency) would

yell: Come quicker!!! instead of the "correct":

Come more quickly!!!

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