Grammar in use Degrees of Comparison of Adjectives

POSITIVE DEGREE COMPARATIVE DEGREE SUPERLATIVE DEGREE tall taller the tallest big bigger the biggest pretty prettier the prettiest difficult more difficult the most difficult EXCEPTIONS good better the best bad worse the worst far farther (відстань) further (час) the farthest the furthest

Exercise 12. Complete the table with the missing degrees of adjectives:

POSITIVE DEGREE	COMPARATIVE DEGREE	SUPERLATIVE DEGREE
thin
	easier
		the worst
	more dangerous
good
		the farthest
interesting
	fatter
		the softest
happy
		the sweetest
common

Exercise 13. Find examples of the comparative and superlative degrees of adjectives in the text The Skeleton and translate the sentences with them into Ukrainian.

Exercise 14. Open the brackets using the adjectives in the proper degree of comparison.

• The lumbar vertebrae are (large) vertebrae in the spinal column.

• This bone is (long) than that one.

• He is (experienced) surgeon in this hospital.

• It is a (good) idea.

• This exercise is (difficult) than the one we did yesterday.

• She is the (young) in her family.

• Is Anatomy (interesting) than Physics for you?

• That was the (bad) decision he could make.

Exercise 15. Open the brackets using the verb in an appropriate tense (Present, Past, Future Simple Active or Passive Voice):

1. The new equipment (to install) in the emergency room next week.

2. Yellow bone marrow (to store) calcium and fat.

3. The lungs (to protect) by the chest.

4. All the patients at the in-patient department (to examine) two hours ago.

5. The professor (to ask) a lot of questions after his lecture tomorrow.

6. This patient (to complain) of severe headache last week.

7. The doctor (to make) a diagnosis only after he gets the findings of your blood test.

8. The administration (to change), if he doesn’t feel better tomorrow.

Exercise 16. Put questions to the underlined words:

1. The chest is composed of 12 thoracic vertebrae, the breastbone and 12 pairs of ribs.

2. He will be administered a bed regimen.

3. Yellow bone marrow stores calcium and fat.

4. The human skeleton takes 20 years before it is fully developed.

5. There are 206 bones in the adult human skeleton.

6. The bones of the skull consist of cranial and facial parts.

7. The upper extremity is formed by the arm, forearm and hand.

8. His temperature will be taken in the morning.