The comparison of adjectives

Complete the advertisements with the comparative form of the adjective.

? Use Get-It-Clean and you'll get your floors cleaner

? Elegant Wallpapers simply look more elegant

                                        

1 Watch a Happy Video and you'll feel……………………………..

2 Wear a pair of Fast Shoes and you'll be a……………………..runner.

3 Helpful Cookbooks are a………............... guide to cooking.

4 Wash your hair with Lovely Shampoo for.. …………… hair.

5 Try a Big-Big Burger and you'll have a …………………….          meal.

6 Restful Beds give you a………………… night.

7 Wear Modern Fashions for a.....................     look.

                                               

The comparison of adverbs

Put in the comparative form of these adverbs: carefully, early, easily, high, long, loud, often, smartly

? I was too nervous to go higher than halfway up the tower.

? We could have found the place more easily with a map.

 

1 Do you have to wear those old jeans, Mike? Can't you dress                                                   ……………………....?

2 You needn't go yet. You can stay a bit.........................................................

3 There are lots of break-ins. They happen......... ………………………….nowadays.

4 If you do it again.........................................................., you won't make so many mistakes.

5 The film starts at eight, but we should get to the cinema a few minutes………………………….

6 We can't hear. Could you speak a bit.................................... ………..?

Irregular forms

Matthew and Emma are walking in the country. Put in further, furthest, better, best, worse and worst.

Emma:   I'm not used to country walks. How much (► ) further is it?

Matthew: Not far. And it gets better. We've done the (1)                        …………………part. Look, the path gets

easier. It goes downhill from here. I hope you're feeling (2)………………………now, Emma.

Emma:   I feel dreadful, actually, (3) ………………………than before.

Matthew: Oh, dear. Do you want to have a rest?
Emma:   No, the (4) ……………………….thing would be to get home as soon as we can. I'm not very fit,

you know. This is the (5) ………………………I've walked for a long time.

Comparing quantities

Put in more, most, less (x2) and least.

 

Laura: Our new car is smaller, so it uses (► ) less petrol. They tested some small cars, and this one costs

the (1)……………………     to run of all the cars in the test. It's very economical, so Trevor likes

it. He wants to spend (2)........................................... on motoring.

Harriet: Can you get three people in the back?

Laura: Not very easily. We had (3)………………………... room in our old car. (4)……………………..

cars take five people, but not this one.

Comparative and superlative forms

Write the correct forms.

? You're the luckyest person I know.                          luckiest

? The situation is getting difficulter.                 more difficult

 

Mere простой, не более чем, всего лишь mere mortal —обыкновенный смертный   used to emphasize how small or insignificant someone or something is

 

1 I was happyer in my old job.

2 I've got the most small office.                                                 

3 This photo is the goodest.

4 Last week's meeting was mere-short.

5 Money is the importantest thing.                                              

6 Is Rachel elder than Vicky?

7 This game is exciteger than the last one.

8 Of all the students, Andrew does the mere work.

9 This month has been weter than last month.

10 The prices are mere-low here.

11 I feel mere-bad than I did yesterday.

 

 

2 1 richest                       5 most popular 2 most modern            6 most successful 3 greatest                     7 most attractive 4 most exciting            8 happiest 3 1 happier                      5 bigger 2 faster                        6 more restful 3 more helpful            7 more modern 4 lovelier 4 1 more smartly             4 more carefully 2 longer                       5 earlier 3 more often               6 louder/more loudly

5 1 worst                         4 best 2 better                        5 furthest 3 worse 6 1 least 2 less 3 more 4 Most 7 1 happier                   7 more exciting 2 smallest                 8 most 3 best                        9 wetter 4 shorter                   10 lower 5 most important      11 worse 6 older

Constructions with comparisons

When the same verb is required in both clauses we normally use an auxiliary for the second verb.

A. With the positive form we use as. .. as with an affirmative verb, and as/so. .. as with a negative verb:                                                                                                                                              He worked as slowly as he dared. He doesn't snore as/so loudly as you do. It didn't take as/so long as I expected.

B. With the comparative form we use than:

He eats more quickly than I do/than me. He played better than he had ever played. They arrived earlier than I expected.

the + comparative... the + comparative is also possible:

 The earlier you start the sooner you'll be back.                                                                                                                             C. With the superlative it is possible to use of + noun:

He went (the) furthest of the explorers.

 

 

                                                                           

 

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