Practice in Forming the Comparative and Superlative Degrees of Adjectives
This exercise will give you practice in forming the comparative and superlativedegrees of adjectives.
Instructions:
Complete each sentence below with the appropriate comparative or superlative form of the adjective in parenthesis. When you're done, compare your answers with those on page two.
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Instructions:
Complete each sentence below with the appropriate comparative or superlative form of the adjective in parenthesis. When you're done, compare your answers with those on page two.
- I wear earplugs at home because I live on the (noisy) street in the world.
- In most cases, you can share your Microsoft Word files with people who have (old) versions of the word processing program.
- The (long) river in Asia--and the third (long) in the world--is the Yangtze.
- Aspartame is a low-calorie sweetener, about 200 times (sweet) than sugar.
- I have never heard a (sad) song than Eric Clapton's "Tears in Heaven."
- Clara Smith had a (strong) voice than Bessie Smith, but Bessie Smith had a more musical voice for singing the blues.
- The (quick) way to lose a good friend is to suggest that she is a bad mother.
- The (reliable) procedure used by researchers to obtain a representative sample is random selection.
- Empty gasoline drums are actually (dangerous) than full drums.
- Studies have shown that a (good) diet and more exercise also sharpen the memory.
- E.T. is frequently listed as one of the (bad) video games of all time.
- Wii Sports ranks as one of the (successful) video games of all time.
- Higher speed requires a (powerful) engine; a (powerful) engine is a (big) and (heavy) engine.
- Now that Marcia has been promoted to manager of the restaurant, she has even (little) free time than she had before.
- LEDs are much (efficient) than incandescent globes, needing about half the energy to produce the same light, but they are still (efficient) than fluorescent lamps.
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