IV. Complete the following sentences with the Comparative or Superlative of the Adverbs

0. The problem becomes more seriously than we thought.                                              SERIOUS

1. I can’t keep up with him – he runs much ______________________ me.                FAST

2. Teachers always say that students must work ______________________.             HARD

3. Steve works ______________________ he used to.                                                     HAPPY

4. Jack drives ______________________ John.                                                                 SLOW

5. It was __________________________ designed chair.                                                BEAUTIFUL

6. He played ______________________ of any player.                                                   GOOD

7. Her dolls look __________________________ mine.                                                   PRETTY

8. Steve gets to work __________________________I do.                                              EARLY

9. Everyone goes to work late today but Jen is __________________________.         LATE

10. Today you play ______________________ yesterday!                                             BAD

11.Could you sing __________________________ please?                                             QUIET

12. My solution works __________________________ yours.                                       EFFECTIVE

13. My paper airplane flew ______________________of all.                                         FAR

14. He works__________________________ his brother.                                               CAREFUL

15. She can read music much __________________________ I can.                             QUICK

Rewrite the sentences. Using the comparative...,the comparative...  13. We practise English a lot. We can speak it fluently. =>

14. The humidity is high. People feel uncomfortable. => 

15. The flat is big. The rent is high. => 

16. The supermarket is big. The choice is wide. => 

 17. I tried to work this out much. I got confused. => 

18. The weather is good. The beaches gets crowded.=> 

19. She waited for long. She became impatient. => 

20. You are very tired. It's hard to concentrate.=> 

21. The price is high. The product is reliable. => 

22. The man gets old. He becomes weak.=> 

23. The time passes very fast. I feel nervous. => 

24. You study hard for these exams. You will do them well.=>

Choose the sentences with the correct order .

1. trip/we/excited/at/our/feel/about/countryside/the/to/the/weekend.

A. We feel excited to out trip about the countryside at the weekend .

B. We feel excited about the trip to the coutryside at our weekend .

C. We feel excited about our trip to the coutryside at the weekend .

D. We feel excited about the trip at the coutryside to our weekend .

2.a/tent/putting/not/is/building/as/up/hard/as/house/a.

A.Putting up a house is not as hard as building a tent .

B.Putting up a tent is not as hard as building a house.

C.Putting up a tent is as not hard as building a house.

D.Putting a tent is not as hard as building up a house.

3.money/I/thann/happiness/that/more/is/think/important.

A.I think happiness that is more important that money

B.I think that happiness is more important that money

C.I think that happiness more is important that money

D.I think that happiness is important more that money

2. Rewrite the following sentences without changing their original meaning. Use the right comparative forms of the adverbs in brackets.

1. Hung drives more carefully than his brother. (carefully)

Hung’s brother____________________________________________________

2. The laboratory in my school is now better equipped than some years ago. (badly)

Some years ago the laboratory________________________________________

3. Nam works more lazily so he often gets worse marks than Quang. (hard, good)

Quang works_____________________________________________________

4. Trung drives more carefully than Minh so he has rarely had an accident. (carelessly)

Minh drives______________________________________________________

5. Going by taxi is faster than going by bus but it costs more than a bus. (little)

Going by a bus is slower than going by a taxi but it

Rewrite sentence using the words in brackets. do not change the meaing of sentences and do not change form of the words:

1.We can get to the movie theater/in an hour and a half.

It only...................................................................................

2.My personality is not the same as yours.

Yours personality.................................................................

3.Lan is better guitarist than me.

I can't....................................................................................

4.This building is more modern than that one.

That building is not...............................................................

5.Tuan is a better English speaker than Nam.

Nam can't...........................................................................

1. His computer is more expensive than me. (Rewrite the sentences, using "not as...as "2.London is more crowded than Ha Noi.(Rewrite the sentences, using "as......as")

3.Indonesia is hotter than Viet Nam. (Rewrite the sentences, using "not as......as")

4.I don't love too watch music in person. My mother doesn't love to watch music on TV. (Either)

5.We like reading books. He likes reading books.(Rewrite the sentences, using "too")

6.I like pop music. My brother likes pop music. (Rewrite the sentences, using "too")

UNIT  2:  Comparative forms of adjectives: review - Comparative forms of adverbs.

1. We have to work much .......... usual to earn money to support our family.

A. as hard as.        B. more hard than.        C . harder than.               D. the hardest.

2. Can you speak English ................... ?  My English is not good.

A.more slowly.        B.slow.                       C. quikly.                      D.more quikly.

3.Is living in the city ........... than living in the country ?

A. more convenient.      B.as convenient.      C. most convenient.     D. so convenient.

4. She runs ............ than her sister.

A. fast.                B. more fastly.       C .faster.                                 D. fastly.

5. People in rural  areas live ......................... than those in the city.

A. happy.   B. more happily. C . happyli.                             D. happiness