Writing for Business - A Whatis.com Blog » faster or fastest http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/writing-for-business Is your grammar as good as your code? Thu, 23 May 2013 20:41:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Faster or fastest? http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/writing-for-business/faster-or-fastest/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/writing-for-business/faster-or-fastest/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:11:27 +0000 Ivy Wigmore http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/writing-for-business/faster-or-fastest/ Which is correct?
The _______ of the two drives was causing shoe-shining.
a. faster
b. fastest

Answer: a

Explanation:
We need the comparative form here, faster, because we’re comparing two things. If we were talking about more than two drives, we’d use the superlative form, fastest.

Those are the rules for positive (fast), comparative (faster) and superlative (fastest) adverbs and adjectives.

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