PRESENT, PAST AND

FUTURE TENSES

ANGIE LIZET RIVERA PRADO

GRAMÁTICA INGLESA
CORPORACIÓN UNIVERSITARIA DEL CARIBE
 WORKSHOP

1) Write the Adverbs for the following adjectives

a) Polite Politely

b) Dangerous dangerously

c) Nice Nicely

d) Easy Easily

e) Good Well

f) Cheap Cheaply

g) Safe Safely

h) Hard Hard

i) Comfortable Comfortably

j) Fast Fast________

k) Beautiful Beautifully

l) Soft Softly

m) Early Early

n) Noisy Noisily

o) Careful Carefully

p) Happy Happily

q) Terrible Terribly

r) Awful Awfully
2) Are the words in bold adjectives or adverbs? Say what type the adverbs are.

a) He is a good student Adjective

b) She speaks loudly Adverb of manner

c) They arrived early adverb of time

d) He is working hard adjective

e) She is a pretty girl adjective

f) Your father is here adverb of place or location

g) They usually eat out adverbs of frequency

h) He drives carefully adverbs of manner

i) He is leaving tomorrow adverbs modifying nouns

j) You dance very well adverbs of manner

3) Underline the correct item

a) My bedroom is tidy/tidily

b) It is snowing heavy/heavily

c) Cross the road careful/carefully

d) My teacher was very angry/angrily yesterday

e) Get ready for school quick/quickly

f) The test was very easy/easily.

g) Your perfume smells nice/nicely

h) Susan is smiling happy/happily

i) This sweater feels very soft/softly

j) He sings beautiful/beautifully.

4) Rewrite the sentences using a verb and an adverb as in the example.

 a) He is a good writer he writes well

b) She is a slow runner. She runs slowly

c) They are clever players. They play cleverly

d) He is a careful driver. He drives carefully

e) They are hard worker. They work hardly.

f) Fiona is a bad singer. Fiona sings badly

g) Paula is a beautiful dancer. Paula dances beautifully

5) Write the comparative and superlative form of the following adjectives.

Adjectives Comparative Superlative

Small Smaller Smallest
Big Bigger Biggest
Weak Weaker Weakest
Dangerous More dangerous Most dangerous
Slow Slower Slowest
Pretty Prettier Prettiest
Safe Safer Safest
Beautiful More beautiful Most beautiful
Fat Fatter Fattest
Sad Sadder Saddest
6) Complete the following sentences using the comparative form

a) My motorbike goes faster than (fast) yours.

b) I work harder than Paul.
c) Today it is colder than (cold) yesterday.
d) I’m older than you.
e) English is less difficult than Japanese.
f) The last bus was more crowded than (crowded) the first bus.
g) I need a bigger bag than this.
h) Travelling by train is more expensive travelling by bus.
i) A coat costs more than a Jacket.
j) Vegetables are better for your health than crisps.

7) Complete the following sentences using the superlative form

a) Sarah is the youngest person in my family (young)

b) That is the horriblest dress I have ever seen (horrible)
c) Roses are the flowers which have the nicest smell nice
d) January is the coldest month of the year (cold)
e) That was the funniest Joke I’ve ever heard (funny)
f) She is the most beautiful woman I’ve ever met (beautiful).
g) This is the worst song I’ve ever heard (bad).

8) Choose one of the following topics and write a paragraph using comparative
and superlative. State your personal opinion on the topic you choose.
LIVING IN THE CITY VS LIVING IN THE COUNTRYSIDE

Live in the countryside is better than in the city. The air is cleaner than in the city, there
are many pacific places to visit and play, the people is friendlier and the live is safer.
Also, in the city there is the horriblest traffic I have ever seen, and a lot of pollution, I
don't like that.