Unit 9

Comparison Degree
1. Positive
Billy’s car is as expensive as Robert’s
car.
2. Comparative
Orange contains more/less vitamin C
than apple.
Cairo is hotter than Surabaya.
Sam is more/less diligent than Reed.
3. Superlative
Mt. Bromo is the highest mountain
that I have ever climbed.
Physics is the most/least difficult
subject for me.
 4. Double comparative
The brighter a star shines, the hotter
its surface will be.

Exercise A:
1. The Disney amusement park in Japan is …
Florida or California.
A. the largest than the ones in
B. larger the ones in
C. larger than the ones in
D. the largest of the ones
2. Tuition at an American university runs ….
twenty thousand dollars a semester.
A. so high as
B. as high to
C. as high as
D. as high than

3. The more he tried to help her, … she

seemed to appreciate it. -> double
comparative
A. easier
B. easiest
C. the less
D. the lesser
Many/much -> more
Little -> less
4. The United States is the … cheese
producer making more than two million
tons of cheese.
A. world’s largest
B. world’s larger
C. large world
D. most world’s largest

5. … 250,000 species of fossils have been

discovered in both organized, scientific
searches and by sheer accident.
A. As much as
B. As many as
C. As many
D. As much
6. The use of detail is … method of
developing a controlling idea, and almost all
students employ this method.
A. more common
B. common
C. most common
D. the most common

7. The North American robin is only … the

European and African robins.
A. half big
B. as big half
C. half/twice as big as
D. big by half
8. A dancer, while always graceful and
precise in her movements, trains … any
other athlete.
A. as strenuously
B. more strenuously as
C. as strenuously as
D. as strenuously that

9. The seed heads of teasel plants raise the

nap on coarse tweed cloth … than do the
machine tools invented to replace them.
A. more efficiently
B. efficiently
C. more efficient
D. most efficient
10. The cost of a thirty-second commercial
on a network television station is … for
most businesses.
A. so much
B. much
C. very much
D. much/little too much
I love you very much.

Regular-> smart smarter smartest

Irregular -> little less least

11. Alligators are about the same color than

as crocodiles, although the adults may be
slightly darker with broader heads and
blunter noses.
12. Benjamin Franklin was the editor of the
largest newspaper in the colonies, a
diplomatic representative to France and
later to England, and the inventor of many
useful devices.

13. Alike Unlike her friend and fellow

impressionist artist, Edgar Degas, Mary
Cassatt used brush strokes and colors in
new and different ways.

His face and his father’s (face) are alike.

14. As a rule, the more rapid the heart rate,

the faster the pulse.
15. The grizzly bear, which can grow up to
eight feet tall, has been called a more the
most dangerous animal of North America.

16. Peter Abelard, a logician and theologian,

was the most controversial controversialist
teacher of his age.

17. Protein molecules are the most more

complex than the molecules of
carbohydrates.

18. No educational medium serves the good

more means of spatial communication than
the atlas that deal with such a valuable
information.
19. The standard for cleanliness in the area
where a microchip is manufactured is the
same as/similar to that of an operating
room in a hospital.

20. School children in the same grade in

American schools are usually the same
ages/as old as their classmates.