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Practice 06 - 01
Practice 06 - 01
PRACTICE
I. Fill in the table with the comparative of these words below:
Adjective Comparative form Adjective Comparative form
far simple
expensive good
gentle cheerful
bad crowded
nice quiet
happy hot
clever difficult
narrow comfortable
little much
II. Fill in the blank with the comparative form of the verb in the bracket
1. Jim and Jack are both my friends, but I like Jack (good).
2. This sweater is (expensive) than that one.
3. I’m (interested) in music than sport.
4. This new bed is (narrow) than the old one.
5. Big cars that use a lot of petrol are (popular) now than
twenty years ago.
6. My dad worked (hard) than the others.
7. No one in her team is (beautiful) than Dyan.
8. We’ve been (busy) ever at work this last month or so.
9. I’ve always thought that Donald was (clever) than his brother.
10. Who is (young), Rowan or Tony?
11. Why did you choose Robert? Marie is (experienced)
than him.
12. Lam visits his parents (often) than his sister does.
13. Her first book was bad, but her second one is even (bad).
III. Choose the correct answer
5. At 5pm yesterday afternoon, they didn’t work / aren’t working / weren’t working,
and we weren’t worked / didn’t work / weren’t working either.
6. He didn’t work / doesn’t work / wasn’t working when his boss come / came /
coming yesterday.
7. Which girl is more pretty / prettier / prettier than, Dana or Karen?
8. Rita is more hard-working / more hard-working than / most hard-working other
students in class.
9. She worked / was working / is working part-time at a café while when Steven
Spielberg scouted / was scouting / scout her for his upcoming movie.
10. The read house is the moderner/more modern/ more moderner of the two.
V. Find and correct the mistakes in the sentences below
1. The living room is biggest than the kitchen one.
3. He has never seen a more good thiller novel than this one!
4. Last year, Mary didn’t write her emails carefully as she does now.
VII. Fill in the blank with the correct form of the verb in the bracket
Let me tell you about one of the craziest moments I’ve experienced in my life. A few weeks
ago, I (1) ……………………(meet) my brother and his wife at the airport. They (2)
…………………………(go) to Paris for their honeymoon and I was going to Rome. Their
Once upon a time, there were two brothers named Ed and Ted who always (1)
against each other. No matter how hard Ted tried, Ed always did everything better.
See, Ed was 1 year (2) his brother Ted. When they (3)
their heights, they found out that Ed was one foot (4)
than his brother.
They loved kicking the soccer ball, but no matter how hard Ted tried, Ed always kicked the
ball (5) his brother Ted. Even when they (6)
basketball, Ted always jumped (7) his younger brother. Finally, when
they ran to the finish line, Ed was always a couple of seconds faster than Ted.
Ted (8) to give up on being the best because his brother was always (9)
than everything he did.
Ed and Ted were both exhausted. Their mom called them back into the house for dinner.
They sat down at the table but it was Ted who was (10) than his brother because
he ate his whole meal.
At that point, both boys realized that you can’t be better at everything than your brother in
life.