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Revision: Comparative and Superlative adjectives bced

1) Read and match

Molly

a

Jane 50 €

Sarah

35 €

15 €€

40 €

Sarah is taller than Jane, Mary and Molly, but Ann is taller than Sarah. Molly is fatter than Ann, Sarah and Mary, but Jane is fatter than Molly.

Mary Ann

d

Mary’s hair is longer than Molly’s hair, Ann’s hair and Jane’s hair, but Sarah’s hair is longer than Mary’s hair. Ann’s shoes are more expensive than Sarah’s shoes, Molly’s shoes and Jane’s shoes, but Mary’s shoes are more expensive than Ann’s shoes.

2) Write the adjectives. 1. __hot______ hotter 2. ___________ lovelier 3. ___________ more interesting 4. ___________ the happiest 5. ___________ earlier 6. ___________ drier 7. ___________ the most famous 8. ___________ friendlier 9. ___________ fatter 10. __________ more exciting

4) Underline the correct word. 1. Football is more/the most exciting than baseball. 2. Winter is a cold/the colder season. 3. Apples are more/ the most useful than cakes. 4. My sister is heavier/the heaviest than me, but my father is heavier/the heaviest in my family. 5. Adam is better/ the best than Sam at tennis, but John is better/the best tennis player in our class. 6. The weather yesterday was worse/bad than last week, but the weather today is the worse/the worst weather this year. 7. Bicycles are the cheapest/cheaper form of transport, but they are also the slowest/ slower than cars and planes.

3) Complete the sentences using the words below and is or big . exciting dangerous heavy healthy hot difficult are

1. France ________is bigger _______________ than Switzerland. 2. Gold _______________________________ than paper. 3. Sharks ______________________________than dolphins. 4. Chinese _____________________________than English. 5. June and July________________________ than April and May. 6. A funfair ____________________________than school. 7. Vegetables ___________________________than sweets. 5) Put the words in order to make sentences. 1. thinks / is / than / Maths / She / Science / worse ______________________________________________ _ 2. best / in / Mark / the / our / is / singer / class ______________________________________________ _ 3. the / day / The / my / most / exciting / birthday / is / in / year. _____________________________________ ______________________________________________ 4. elephants / smaller / Mice / and / are / tigers / than ______________________________________________ _ 5. youngest / is / in / the / Mary / their / person / family ______________________________________________ _

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ADJECTIVES and ADVERBS (Revision exercises) Adjectives describe nouns and usually come before them. Tom is a good tennis player. Adjectives come after certain verbs: appear, be, feel, look, seem, smell, sound, taste. That man seemed kind.

Adverbs describe verbs and they usually end in –ly but there are some exceptions: late, fast, hard, well Tom reads slowly. Sarah plays the violin well.

1) Write the missing adverbs.

2) Look at the underlined words. Are they adjectives or adverbs? Circle the right word.

Adjective

1 Nick is a really friendly boy.

adj/adv

2 Does your sister work hard at school?

adj/adv

3 The meat smelled very tasty!

adj/adv

Adverb

perfect perfectly easy ________ whole ________ usual ________ possible ________ hard ________ fast ________ good ________ true ________

4 Don’t run so fast, I can’t follow you. adj/adv

3) Choose the correct alternative.

5 I usually get very tired after a long walk in the forest.

adj/adv

6 Sarah is not at all afraid of spiders.

adj/adv

7 We had awful weather last week. adj/adv

1 I think Mary looked wonderful/wonderfully in red – this colour suits her. 2 John has to work hard/hardly to become a scientist. 3 My friend Sam often tells/tells often very strange stories. 4 There have been some films popular/popular films about famous people. 5: The story of Troy is probably/probable the most famous Greek myth. 6 You shouldn’t drive so fastly /fast – it’s dangerous! 4) Put the underlined words in the correct sentences.

5) Put the adjectives and adverbs into the correct places in the sentences.

Example: 1 Adam always had good ideas and he answered the question very happy -cleverly (8)

1 I need to check my work because I sometimes make mistakes. (careless)____________________ _________________________________________ 2 The snow began to fall as the children went through the mountains. (heavily)._____________ _________________________________________ 3They can find a simple explanation for anything. (usually)._________________________ _________________________________________ 4 Mr. Grey loves his comfortable leather armchair. (old)____________________________

2 Tourists ancient ……….learn many words of our language. 3 We hope they arrived home often …………. It’s a very long journey. 4 Ted can see that Ann feels intelligent ………… today. She can’t stop smiling. 5 Jill has never ……………. We expect she’ll be home soon.

gone shopping.

6 Peter’s a really probably …………. student. He always gets good marks in his exams. 7 In safely ……………… times, they travelled everywhere on foot. 8 Jane cleverly ………… forgets to lock the door when she goes out.

5 That food smells – I’m going to throw it out right now! (bad) __________________________ _________________________________________ 6 You shouldn’t walk through the city centre at this time of night. (definitely) _________________________________________ 7 Sally bought a pair of new red rain boots. (nice)____________________________________