Adjectives and adverbs

Ex. 1 Group the adjectives below into two columns: a) forming the comparative and superlative forms with "-er" and "-est", b) adjectives using "more" and "most".

Short, slow, difficult, great, pretty, expensive, beautiful, useful, silly, clever, interesting, happy, funny, unhappy, black, weak, young, cold, nice, hard, long, tall, serious, easy, important, comfortable, simple, tactful, sad.

Write the comparative and superlative degrees of the following adjectives:

Slow – ___________________________; pretty – ___________________________; expensive – _____________________________________; useful – _____________ ______________; clever – ________________________________________;

unhappy – __________________________________; serious – _____________ ______________; important – ____________________________________; comfortable – ______________________________________________; simple – ___________________________; sad – ___________________________;

Ex. 2 Develop the idea using the comparative degree of an adjective, according to the model:

Model: Sue's car isn't very big. – She wants a bigger one.

1. The house isn't very modern. I prefer _________________________________

2. You aren't very tall. Your brother is _________________________________

3. Bill doesn't work very hard. _________________________________

4. My chair isn't very comfortable. _________________________________

5. Tom's idea wasn't very good. _________________________________

6. These flowers aren't very nice. _________________________________

7. My suitcase isn't very heavy. _________________________________

8. I'm not very interested in sport events. _________________________________

9. It isn't very warm today. _________________________________

10. These tomatoes are not juicy enough. _________________________________

11. Britain isn't a very large country. _________________________________

12 Rostov isn't a very old city. _________________________________

13. This knife isn't sharp enough. _________________________________

14. He isn't a very polite young man. _________________________________

Ex. 3 Add a sentence according to the model:

Model: He isn't very tall. – You are taller than he is.

1. She isn't very old. _________________________________

2. She isn't a very good cook. _________________________________

3. We don't know many people here. _________________________________

4. They haven't got much money. _________________________________

5. He isn't a very fast runner. _________________________________

6. The day is not really fine today. _________________________________

7. This autumn isn't very rainy. _________________________________

8. The morning today isn't so cold. _________________________________

9. Mother doesn't look very angry. _________________________________

10. Benny isn't afraid of dogs. _________________________________

11. This book isn't as interesting as you said it is. ____________________________

12. This room isn't large enough for our classes. _____________________________

Ex. 4 Use much with an adjective in the comparative degree, according to the model:

Model: He is 30. His wife is 20. – He is much older than his wife.

1. There are twenty pages in this book and two hundred in that one. 2. You will not recognize him. He has grown so much. 3. We didn't expect the book to be so interesting. 4. We didn't expect the view to be so beautiful. 5. We haven't expected him to be so old. 6. We didn't expect her to be so talented. 7. We didn't know the task would be so difficult. 8. We didn't expect the film to be so interesting. 9. We didn't expect the weather to be so cold today. 10. We didn't expect the trip to be so long.

Ex. 5 Use a bit or much to state the difference, according to the model:

Model: He isn't a good swimmer; his sister is a good swimmer. –

His sister is a much/bit better swimmer than he is.

1. Mary is 25 years old. Her husband is 26. 2. She is a good driver. Her son isn't a good driver yet. 3. He is not a good dancer. His wife is a good dancer. 4. I speak English well. Your English is still poor. 5. John is very intelligent. Pete is not so intelligent. 6. Mary is a very polite girl, but her brother is not so polite. 7. Jack's mother is 58. His father is 62. 8. Those shoes cost 300. Her shoes cost 500. 9. Today it is very cold. Yesterday it was quite warm. 10. The book is interesting, but I didn't like the film.

Ex. 6 Add a sentence using the superlative degree of the adjective, according to the model:

Model: Elbrus is a high mountain. –