You should take ----- a sport and then you would get more exercise.

A. off        B. up         C. down

Complete the rewritten facts about someone's job. Use in, with, by or without at the beginning of each answer.
2. He works for a company. It has about 50 employees.
He works for a company...................
3. He has an office. It has a view over the city.
He has an office.................................

7. He does research with customers to plan the advertisements.
He plans the advertisements..........................

Martin has been on holiday. Complete what he tells his friends about it by putting in
suitable adverbs of degree. Sometimes more than one adverb is suitable in a gap.

1 The weather was ----- nice but it wasn't wonderful.
2 It got -------- cold in the evenings and I had to put on lots of warm
clothes.
3 The hotel was --------------- a long way from the beach and it took a --------
long time to get there.
4 The beach was ------ nice and I had a wonderful time there.
5 I went to the beach ------- frequently but there were lots of days when
I didn't go there.
6 Local people spoke to me ------- politely and treated me -------- 
well - they were lovely.
7 I was -------- amazed by some of the wonderful things I saw.
8 It was an ------- fantastic holiday - the best I've ever had.
 

Complete this newspaper report of a tennis match by putting in the comparative
adverb forms of the adjectives in brackets. You may also need to use "than".

Lewis through to final
Lewis was very nervous at the beginning of the match. Franklin started
the match more calmly 0 (calm) and was playing ................1
(good) him. He was hitting the ball.......2 (hard) Lewis and
he was running around the court..........3 (fast). But after a
while, Lewis started to p la y ....................................4 (confident) and to hit
the ball........5 (accurate). The crowd began to support him
......6 (loud) and he began to score points...................
(easy) Franklin. Lewis started to play .......8 (impressive) as
the game continued and he hit some very good shots. Franklin started
to behave.........9 (unpleasant) and he shouted at the umpire
several times. Lewis played................10 (intelligent) him and
finally won an easy victory.
 

Complete the rewritten comparisons, using as...as

2. You do a lot of work. I do a lot of work too -> I ..................... you