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Practice in Forming the Comparative and Superlative Degrees of Adjectives

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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.

  1. I wear earplugs at home because I live on the (noisy) street in the world.
  2. In most cases, you can share your Microsoft Word files with people who have (old) versions of the word processing program.


  1. The (long) river in Asia--and the third (long) in the world--is the Yangtze.
  2. Aspartame is a low-calorie sweetener, about 200 times (sweet) than sugar.
  3. I have never heard a (sad) song than Eric Clapton's "Tears in Heaven."
  4. Clara Smith had a (strong) voice than Bessie Smith, but Bessie Smith had a more musical voice for singing the blues.
  5. The (quick) way to lose a good friend is to suggest that she is a bad mother.
  6. The (reliable) procedure used by researchers to obtain a representative sample is random selection.
  7. Empty gasoline drums are actually (dangerous) than full drums.
  8. Studies have shown that a (good) diet and more exercise also sharpen the memory.
  9. E.T. is frequently listed as one of the (bad) video games of all time.
  10. Wii Sports ranks as one of the (successful) video games of all time.
  11. Higher speed requires a (powerful) engine; a (powerful) engine is a (big) and (heavy) engine.
  12. Now that Marcia has been promoted to manager of the restaurant, she has even (little) free time than she had before.


  1. 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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