Combine the ideas in the parentheses into a double comparative. You need to decide which of the two given ideas should come first in the comparison to make a logical statement.
Example: The harder you study, the more you will learn.
The more she studied, the more she learned.
5. (He thought about his family. He became homesick.) Pierre tried to concentrate on his studying, but his mind would drift to his family and his home. The ………………………………….
6. (We ran fast to reach the house. The sky grew dark.) -A storm was threatening. The ……………………………………………………..……
7. (I became confused. I thought about is.) At first I thought I’d understood what she’d said, but then the …………………………………………
8. (The air is polluted. The chances of developing respiratory diseases are great.) Pollution poses many dangers. For example, the …………………..………………………………..…
The more he thought about his family, the more homesick he became.
The faster we ran to reach the house, the darker the sky grew.
more confused I became, the more I thought about it.
The more polluted the air is, the greater the chances of developing resporatory diseases are.