COMPARISONS AS…AS

Match the adjectives to the nouns to make phrases.

good the sky as good as gold

green snow
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_________________________
brave gold _________________________
red a bone _________________________
white grass _________________________
_________________________
light a peacock
_________________________
blue ice
_________________________
cold a beetroot
_________________________
big a feather
_________________________
dry an elephant
______________________
proud a lion

Complete the sentences. Use the phrases above. (Pictures help you.)

1 Your hands are ________________________.

2 When Jonathan won first prize, he was ___________________________.

3 When I saw that nice girl, my face went ___________________________.

4 Sarah’s little daughter didn’t cry when she went to the doctor’s.

She was ___________________________.

5 Mary’s got beautiful eyes. They’re ________________________.

6 Tom was very handsome, but he knew it.

His head was _______________________________.

7 I’m very thirsty. My throat’s ______________________________.

Rewrite the sentences as in the example.

Bill is twelve years old and Tom is twelve, too. - Tom is as old as Bill.
1 Computer Studies is difficult and Maths is difficult, too.
Maths is _______________________________________________.
2 Paris is beautiful and London is beautiful, too.
London is _____________________________________________.
3 Kim is very nice but Sally is nicer.
Kim isn’t _______________________________________________.
4 June is hot but August is hotter.
June isn’t _____________________________________________.
5 Tom is intelligent but Matt is more intelligent.
Tom isn’t _____________________________________________.