Like/alike

Like = similar to

Alike = similar

NOTE:

Their meaning is the same but the sentence patterns are different.

Your haircut is like my haircut.

Your haircut and my haircut are alike.

Our haircuts are alike.

Exercise 20. Complete the sentences with like and alike.

Example: You and I have got the same notebooks. In other words, your notebook is like mine. Our notebooks are alike.

1. Ann and you have got similar pets. In other words, her pet is yours. Your pets are .

2. Pete and I have got similar hobbies. In other words, his hobby is mine. Our hobbies are .

3. Sarah and Mike have got similar interests. In other words, her interests are his. Their interests are .

4. Nick's room is similar to our room. In other words, his room is ours. Our rooms are ___ .

5. My friends and I have similar CD players. In other words, my CD player is theirs. Our CD players are .

6. Walter and his girlfriend have got similar tastes. In other words, his tastes are hers. Their tastes are .

Adjectives. The Superlative: using -est and most

Adjectives with one syllable	long => the longest hot => the hottest Which is the longest river in the world? July is the hottest month of the year.
Adjectives with two or more syllables	modern =:> the most modern => the least modern interesting => the most interesting => the least interesting This building is the most modern in our city. The book is the least interesting of all J've ever read.
Adjectives ending in -y	easy => the easiest funny => the funniest This is the easiest way to get there. Frank is the funniest boy in my class.
Irregular superlative forms	good => the best bad = the worst far => the farthest/the furthest old => the oldest/the eldest little => the least much/many => the most I think Kev is the best player in the club. He is the worst person I've ever known. It's the farthest/furthest point west. There are three children in her family. Jack, Ted and Nick, her eldest son. The house over there is the oldest in the town.

Exercise 21. Write the comparative and superlative forms of the adjectives.

Adjective	Comparative	Superlative
fast	-----------------	---------------
good	-----------------	---------------
friendly	-----------------	---------------
careful	-----------------	---------------
bad	-----------------	---------------
young	-----------------	---------------
quiet	-----------------	---------------
calm	-----------------	---------------
happy	-----------------	---------------
energetic	-----------------	---------------

Exercise 22. Complete the sentences. Use the superlative form of the given adjectives.

Example: tall The Sear Tower is the tallest building in Chicago.

1) small	Australia is _ continent in the world.
2) famous	"Principia" is _ book by Newton.
3) bad	There are a lot of mistakes in Pete's test paper. It's _ test paper of all.
4) high	Everest is _ mountain in the world.
5) great	William Shakespeare is _ poet of England.
6) good	I think friendship is _ thing in the world.

Exercise 23. Complete the following sentences. Use the superlative form of the adjectives in brackets.

1. (early) _ examples of writing are pictures on clay tablets from the Middle East and Southern Europe.

2. One of (large) _ English Dictionaries - Webster's Third New International Dictionary - has over 450,000 entries.

3. The languages of South-East Asia have (great) _ number of vowel sounds.

4. Native American language Mohawk has (few) _ number of consonant sounds - seven.

5. (short) _ alphabet in the world (Rotokas, from the Solomon Islands) has only seven letters.

6. (long) _ alphabet in the world is Cambodian, with seventy-four letters.

7. (far) _ planet from the Sun is Pluto.

8. Dolphins are _ (intelligent) mammals in the world.

Exercise 24. Make up sentences. Put the adjectives in italics in the comparative and superlative form.

Example: My room's big. (in the house) => My room's bigger than the others. My room is the biggest in the house. This information's important. (of all) => This information is more important than yours. My information is the most important of all.

1. My room's cold. (in the flat).

2. This garden's nice. (in the street).

3. My desk is tidy. (in the office).

4. My English is good. (in the group).

5. My flat is small. (in the house).

6. My hometown is beautiful. (in the world).

7. This problem is difficult. (in the book).

Exercise 25. Put the words in the correct order to make sentences.

Example: family / the / am / the / in / I / oldest. I'm the oldest in the family.

1. sister / me / my / than / younger / is.

2. class / Debby / smartest / the / the / in / is.

3. book / interesting / than / my / yours / more / is.

4. weather / better / today / than / much / yesterday/is/the.

5. home / Moscow / town / than / traffic / in / worse/is/my/in.

6. as / you / much / I / have / as / not / money / got.