Grammar Exercises

Ex. 1. Consult Grammar Focus (Degrees of comparison) and do the exercises.

Ex. 2. Write the Comparative and Superlative forms of the adjectives.

Busy, careful, long, dry, wide, great, cold, short, clever, silly, black, convenient, white, thin, thick, fat, nice, warm, merry, comfortable, small, tall, important, old, friendly, brave, good, difficult, deep, heavy, beautiful, happy, easy, bad, little, far, big, old, often, fast, crowded.

The boy is taller than the girl.

Is the boy as tall as the man?

No, the boy isn’t so tall as the man.

He is smaller than the man.

The man is the tallest of all.

Ex. 3. Compare different means of transport and ways of travelling as in the model

Model: more expensive — a bus is more expensive than a bike.

faster more comfortable

more interesting cheaper

more reliable longer

less dangerous healthier

the most convenient the best

Ex. 4. Write out from Text A a) adjectives; b) adverbs and define their degree of comparison. Wherever possible, form comparative and superlative degrees of these adjectives and adverbs.

Ex. 5. Put in as…as or than.

1) Our house is not…big…yours. 2. The new cinema in our district is much bigger…the old one. 3. The house I live in is …old …the one my sister lives in. 4. Exercise2 is easier… Exercise3. 5. My composition is not … long … yours.

Ex. 6. Put the adjectives into the correct form.

1. This man is (tall) than that one. 2. Which building is the (high) in Kyiv? 3. Mary is a (good) student than Lucy. 4. The Alps are (high) than the Urals. 5 Our buses are (comfortable) than double-deckers. 6. Kyiv is the (large) city of our country. 7. The weather today is (bad) than it was yesterday. 8. I think the Metropol Hotel is the (good) in our city. 9. Could you tell me where the (near) Underground station is? 10. She is not so (fond) of sports as my brother is. 11. A bus is (fast) than a train. 12. Which is the (hot) month of the year? 13. She is not so (busy) as I am. 14. He is as (tired) as you are. 15. It is (easy) to swim in the sea than in the river. 16. (Good) late than never.

Ex. 7. Fill in the blanks as in the example.

a) 1. At the disco, the music got louder and louder as the night went on. (loud)

2. Clothes seem to be getting …………… all the time. (expensive)

3. The plane flew ……………… into the sky. (high)

4. Pets are very popular now and ……………… people enjoy looking after animals. (many)

b) 1. The longer I had to queue at the bank, the more impatient I became.

2. …………. (much) the child cried, …………… (angry) the mother became.

3. …………. (small) a flat is, …………….. (low) the rent is.

4. ………….. (fast) you drive, ……………. (quick) we’ll get there.

Ex. 8. Form the degrees of comparison from the following adverbs:

Quickly; late; often; long; comfortably; badly; quietly; much; heavily; little; fully; beautifully; early.

Ex. 9. Pair work. Ask each other these questions and answer them.

Begin each answer with: In my opinion, I personally think…

1) What are the most interesting tourist sights for visitors in our country?

2) What are the most popular vacation places for people in our country? Why?

3) What is the most popular car in the country?

4) Do you think travel helps a person to become wiser?

5) What is the best (worst) hotel in Kyiv (your home town)?

6) What is the worst (best) season for travelling?

7) What is the most popular way of travelling among young people?

Ex. 10. Look at the pictures and make sentences according to the models at the bottom.

There’s somebody/someone Is there anybody/anyone There’s nobody/no one

in the house. in the house. in the house.

There isn’t anybody/

anyone in the house?