CONTRAST

While/ Whereas S+V+O This is in sharp contrast to B …

Despite/ In spite of + N … as opposed to … = rather than

A, by comparison, is/was much more + Adj than B … in comparison with …

1. ___________ the 80s saw house building in Newton plummeting to over 200 uses, in the 90s the number of new
houses rocketed to 270.

2. ____________ some poor figures from May to October, the attendance trend at the MSE was upward.

3. ____________, on the other hand, the number of visitors hovered around the 20 to 25,000 mark from 1900 to 2000.

4. The amount spent on defence is ________________ to that spent on housing and health.

5. ____________________ with the French, the British eat far less fish.

6. The common use of the word animal as the equivalent of mammal, ___________________to bird or reptile or fish, is
erroneous.

COMPARISON WITH ARITHMATIC

[A lot /Much] MORE/ LESS + Uncountable Noun

[A lot /Many] MORE/ FEWER + Countable Noun

1. There used to be __________ information available about fitness.

2. Today’s athletes need to do _________ __________ training than in the past.

3. Increased sponsorship has given today’s athletes __________ __________ opportunities to succeed.

4. Today’s top sportspeople receive ___________ ____________ money than in the past.

[just, almost, nearly, half, twice, three times,…] AS + ADJ/ ADV + AS

[half, twice, three times,…] AS + much/many NOUN + AS

1. In 2005, our team was almost as (success/ successful) as in 2003.

2. He can run twice as (slow/ slowly) as the others in his team.

3. In 2004, China won (half as many silver medals as/ half many as silver medals as) the US.

4. There aren’t (as much/as many) people doing sports at school as there used to be.

5. The Sear Tower in Chicago isn’t (three times as high as/ three times as much high as) Eiffel Tower in Paris.

6. There are (four times as much pages / four times as more pages) in Gone with the Wind as in the Great Gatsby.

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