Why using peaceful not peacefully

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
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Living in this small town is more peaceful than I expected.

when we also have : City drivers have to drive more carefully than country ones.

I thought we should place preposition behind verb?

Please help me teacher

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First Sentence
‘Peaceful’ modifies the gerund ‘living’.
(Peaceful living)

Second Sentence
‘Carefully’ is an adverb modifying the verb ‘drive’.
(Drive carefully)

I’m not sure what you mean by the preposition. I assume you mean ‘to’ in the second sentence. In this case, ‘to’ is not a preposition. It is part of the infinitive ‘to drive’.

If it was used as a destination then it would be a preposition.
(Drive to the store.)

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Thank you very much teacher

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Here, LIVING is a gerund (verbal noun) and a noun takes only an adjective (PEACEFUL).
PEACEFULLY is an adverb which can go only with a verb as a modifier as in: ‘I am living in this small town peacefully.’

Note that the word ‘to’ can function as either a preposition or a particle.

  1. When it comes before a noun (most usually), it is a preposition.
  2. When it comes before the bare/base/root form of a verb, it is a particle (infinitive marker).
  • City drivers have to drive more carefully than country ones. (Infinitive marker or particle coming before the verb ‘drive’)
  • City drivers have to drive to the destination chosen by the passenger. (Preposition coming before the noun ‘the destination’)
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This is correct. I was reading too fast. ‘Peaceful’ modifies ‘living’, not ‘town’ as I originally stated. I fixed it to save confusion.

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