Question

I. Combine these pairs of sentences into one, using the double comparative clauses :

I waited long. I got angry . ………………………………………………… You are old. You understand more. ………………………………………………… She drove fast. I became nervous. ………………………………………………… We ran fast to go home. The sky went dark. ……………………………………………… She does many exercises. He gets healthy. ……………………………………………… The air is polluted. Diseases are great. ……………………………………………… We went far. We felt tired.……………………………………………… The soil was poor. The famers tried hard. ……………………………………………………….. The bread is bad. It is cheap. ………………………………………………………… Peter is old. He is clever. …………………………………………………………… The lesson is difficult. We tried hard. …………………………………………………………… He talked a lot. We disliked him very much. ……………………………………………………. If you eat much vegetable, you will feel healthy…………………………………………………………………… The workers built roads. They needed a lot of equipment.………………………………………………………………… There is much co-operation. We can recycle a lot of waste papers.…………………………………………………………………… He thought about his family. He felt homesick very much.……………………………………………………………………… Tom wrote more. His writing was becoming better.…………………………………………………………………… He became poorer because he spent too much money.…………………………………………………………………… We read this book carefully. We understand it well.……………………………………………………………………

Answer 1

I. Combine these pairs of sentences into one, using the double comparative clauses :

I waited long. I got angry The longer I waited, the angrier I got You are old. You understand more. The older you are, the more you understand She drove fast. I became nervous. The faster she drove, the more nervous I became We ran fast to go home. The sky went dark. The darker the sky went, the faster we ran to go home She does many exercises. He gets healthy. The more exercises she does, the healthier she gets The air is polluted. Diseases are great. The more polluted the air is, the greater diseases are We went far. We felt tired The farther we went, the more tired we felt The soil was poor. The famers tried hard. The poorer the soil was, the harder the farmers tried The bread is bad. It is cheap. The cheaper the bread is, the worse it is Peter is old. He is clever. The older Peter is, the cleverer he is The lesson is difficult. We tried hard. The more difficult the lesson is, the harder we tried He talked a lot. We disliked him very much. The more he talked, the more we disliked him If you eat much vegetable, you will feel healthy The more vegetables you eat, the healthier you will feel The workers built roads. They needed a lot of equipment. The more roads the workers built, the more equipment they needed There is much co-operation. We can recycle a lot of waste papers.The more co-operation there is, the more waste papers we can recycle He thought about his family. He felt homesick very much.The more he thought about his family, the more homesick he felt Tom wrote more. His writing was becoming better.The more Tom wrote, the better his writing was becoming He became poorer because he spent too much money. The more money he spent, the poorer he became We read this book carefully. We understand it well.The more carefully we read this book, the better we understand it