Exercise on Comparison of Adjectives (as ...

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Fill in the comparison with as ... as.

as tall as
1. John is (tall) Glen. SALA 22
as beautiful as
2. Janet is (beautiful) Jeniffer.
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as crazy as
3. You are (crazy) my sister. • FABIÁN HERRERA
as fast as
4. We can run (fast) they can.
not as strict as
5. My mom is (not / strict) your mum.
not as trendy as
6. Your mobile phone is (not / trendy) mine.
not as interesting as
7. Matrix II was (not / interesting) Matrix I.
doesn't not tas
8. This yoghurt (not / taste / good) the one I bought yesterday.
as many prees
9. I can do (many / press-ups) you.
don't earn as m
10. I (not / earn / much / money) you do.

Use ‘just’ , ‘almost’ for similarites and ‘quite’, ‘nearly’ for differences

as fast as
1) The blue car is the red car. (fast)
don't as tall as
2) Peter is Fred. (not/tall)
don't as low a
3) The violin is the cello. (not/low)
a bad as
4) This copy is the other one. (bad)
as optimistic as
5) Oliver is Peter. (optimistic)
don't as w indy
6) Today it's yesterday. (not/windy)
as delicious as
7) The tomato soup was the mushroom soup. (delicious)
not as sw eet as
8) Grapefruit juice is lemonade. (not/sweet)
as brave as
9) Nick is Kevin. (brave)
not as heavy as
10) Silver is gold. (not/heavy)
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Rules

To show no difference: as much as , as many as, as few as, as little as

• as many as / as few as + countable nouns

• as much as / as little as + uncountable nouns

Examples:

With countable nouns:

• They have as many children as us.

• We have as many customers as them.
• Tom has as few books as Jane.
• There are as few houses in his village as in mine.
• You know as many people as I do.
• I have visited the States as many times as he has.

With uncountable nouns:

• John eats as much food as Peter.

• Jim has as little food as Sam.
• You've heard as much news as I have.
• He's had as much success as his brother has.
• They've got as little water as we have.