Exercise: Degree of Comparison

I. Change the verb in brackets into the correct form!

1. Fatin has become more famous than Agnes Monica.
2. American cars are usually larger and more expensive than Japanese cars.
3. Riding motorcycle is (not same) not as same as driving a car.
4. A notebook costs less than a laptop.
5. This is the most popular type on the market today.
6. The more training you give to your employees, the better they will perform.
7. For me, English is the least difficult languages to learn.
8. The bigger memory your computer has, the more data it can store.
9. Anne is the best employee of the month.
10. I invited all my co-workers to my open house as the saying goes:
The more, the merrier.
11. Linda doesn’t feel (fit) fit today.
12. I’m calling to ask for some further information on this holiday package.
Far: 1. Farther: talk about distance (jarak)
Example: My house is farther from the school than yours.
They keep walking farther from their original destination.
2. Further: talk about something related to any information/data
13. He came to the meeting the latest of all.
14. John’s (old) elder brother is a pilot.
15. Monica has (little) less toys than Erie.
16. Evan’s performance getting (good) better and (good) better day by day.
17. Dan feels much better today.
18. Sandra did the worst of all interviewees.

II. Correct the mistakes

1. I have the heavier heaviest bag.
2. Tom is the best in our group.
3. Helen is thinner than Pam.
4. Mona is happier than Liz.
5. Tony is older than Pete.
6. This apple is the sweeter sweetest.
 7. Your watch is cheaper than mine.
8. The tree is the oldest in the street.
9. My house is more expensive than yours.
10. This animal is the most dangerous in the zoo.
11. Sam gets up the earliest earlier than Bill.
12. This building is the most modern in this town.
13. February is the colder coldest month of the year.
14. May is the warmest warmer than March.
15. Bill is the fastest faster than Nick.

III. Correct or Incorrect? Spot and correct the incorrect ones!

1. Much less water flooded into the house than I expected. Correct
2. There are less (fewer) people here than promised to come.
3. Tennis is a far harder game than football. Correct
4. The more you protest, (the) more guilty you look!
5. This house is twice as big as the other one we saw. Correct
6. Your dog is so friendly / much friendlier than my one.
Note: so + positive degree

much + comparative degree

7. That company is considerably richest (richer) than that one.

8. That’s by far the largest dam I’ve ever seen. Correct

IV. Fill the gaps with appropriate comparative and superlative forms of the adjectives in the
box. Add  than  and the if necessary.

dry Keen = like = suka fat bored

good loose real safe
tidy bad big pretty
wet scared wrong far

Example:
- I’m rather worried about the side effects of aspirin. Can you recommend a safer alternative?
1. And now we come to the award for __the best_______ actor in a leading role.
2. It’s been raining non-stop. I wouldn’t be surprised if this turns out to be ___the
wettest______ July on record!
3. The authenticity of dialogue and setting often makes low-budget films seem ___more real
than___ the somewhat artificial version of reality in Hollywood movies.
4. In medieval times, people rarely travelled long distances. For most peasants (rakyat jelata),
____the farthest_____ they would ever travel would be the local market town.
5. In our study, children on a diet high in dairy products tended to be considerably ___fatter
than______ average.
6. Now that I’m employing a cleaner, the house has become a lot ____tidier than_____ it ever
used to be!
7. This skirt’s much too tight on the hips. I need something with a ____looser_____ fit.
8. DiCaprio was awful! I think that’s _the worst________ performance I’ve ever seen him give.
9. I don’t mind the Mediterranean summer because it’s a _____drier____ heat than you find in
the tropics.
10. They say the great pyramid at Giza is ___the biggest______ structure to survive from the
ancient world.
11. I like all Mozart’s operas, but I think Don Giovanni is the one I am __the most
keen/keenest__ on.
12. We inherited two paintings from my grandmother. Of the two, I’d say the landscape is __the
prettier__.
13. I know all murder is wrong, but don’t you agree that it’s ___more wrong___ to murder a child
than to murder an adult?
14. ___The most scared___ I’ve ever felt was when Joe and I were flying over the Himalayas and
we hit a storm; it was absolutely terrifying.
Note: whenever you use the phrase I’ve/I’d ever …, make sure to use the superlative form.

15. That play was so tedious (boring). I was more bored watching that than I was when I spent
three hours trapped in that lift last year!