5 Grammar extension

Comparative adjectives 4 Rewrite the sentences using the words in

brackets.
1 Complete the table with the correct forms of the Your ideas are more interesting than his ideas.
adjectives.
His ideas aren’t as interesting as your ideas.
Adjective Comparative (as … as)
fast faster 1 Ann’s car isn’t as expensive as Gemma’s car.
old 1 (more)
2 funnier 2 MP3 players are more fashionable than digital
hot 3
radios.
4 more expensive (as ... as)
5
boring 3 Musicals aren’t as frightening as horror films.
6 later (more)
7
nice 4 Mum’s car is slower than Dad’s car.
8
good
(as ... as)
9 worse
5 Rock concerts aren’t as exciting as football
matches.
2 Complete the sentences with the comparative (more)
form of the adjectives in brackets and than.
Maths is more boring than science.
5 Study the information about New York and
Tokyo. Complete the sentences.
(boring)
1 New York is London. popular
(big) big old populated expensive with
2 Madonna is Lady Gaga. tourists
(famous)
New
3 Today is yesterday. York
● ●● ● ●● ●●
(cold)
4 My laptop is yours. Tokyo ●● ● ●● ●● ●
It’s got a webcam! (good)
New York isn’t as big as Tokyo. (big)
5 Lions are cats.
(dangerous) 1 New York Tokyo. (old)
6 The living room is the 2 Tokyo New York.
kitchen. (sunny) (expensive)
3 Tokyo New York.
3 Complete the sentences with as ... as and the (popular)
adjectives in brackets. 4 New York Tokyo.
Your English is very good. Mine is bad! (populated)
My English isn’t as good as yours. (good) 5 New York Tokyo. (big)
1 My sister is 1m 52cm. I’m 1m 52cm. 6 Tokyo New York.
(populated)
My sister me. (tall)
2 The red T-shirt is £12. The blue one is £15. 6 Correct the mistakes in the sentences. Two
The red T-shirt the blue sentences are correct.
one. (expensive)
I’m tall than my brother. taller
3 Skiing is very difficult. Roller skating is very
1 Lions aren’t dangerous as elephants.
difficult too.
2 That film was more funny than the last one.
Skiing roller skating.
(difficult)
3 Skiing is more difficult than swimming.
4 Joe is very intelligent. Rob isn’t very intelligent.
Rob Joe. (intelligent)
4 Driving isn’t as expensive as flying.
5 Boston is quite small. New York is very big.
5 Oranges are biger than tomatoes.
Boston New York. (big)

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