1. Order the words to make sentences.
1 better / today / feeling / far / I’m
I’m ……………………………………………….
2 as / nowhere / Chinese / difficult / as / is / English / near
English …………………………………………
3 much / at chess / my brother / am / better / I / than
…………………………………………………….
4 than / even / this winter / colder / is / last winter
…………………………………………………….
5 nothing / too much coffee / as / too much alcohol / as / for you / bad / like / is
…………………………………………………….
Answer
1 I’m feeling far better today.
2 English is nowhere near as difficult as Chinese.
3 I am much better at chess than my brother. / I am much better than my brother at chess.
4 This winter is even colder than last winter.
5 Too much coffee is nothing like as bad for you as too much alcohol.
2. Complete the sentences with the comparative form of the adjectives and adverbs in brackets.
1 The …………………… I work, the …………………… I feel. (hard / tired)
2 The …………………… you drive, the …………………… you are to have an accident. (fast / likely)
3 The …………………… you practise the piano, the …………………… you’ll become. (often / good)
4 The …………………… you work, the …………………… mistakes you will make. (slow / few)
5 The …………………… the weather, the …………………… I feel. (cold / depressed)
Answer
1 harder, more tired 2 faster, more, likely 3 more often, better
4 slower, fewer 5 colder, more depressed
3. Complete the sentences with the double comparative form of the adjectives in brackets.
1 Summers in Britain seem to be getting …wetter and wetter…… . (wet)
2 Electricity and gas are becoming …………………… . (expensive)
3 My school grades are getting …………………… . (good)
4 It’s getting …………………… to find good babysitters. (hard)
5 Inner cities are becoming …………………… . (dangerous)
6 Galaxies in the universe are moving …………………… apart from one another. (far)
Answer
2 more and more expensive 3 better and better
4 harder and harder 5 more and more dangerous
6 further / farther and further / farther
4. Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence.
1 It’s hot today. It was the same yesterday.
It’s …no hotter today than it was yesterday…………
2 I used to be argumentative. I’m less so now.
I’m less ………………………………………… .
3 People think I’m confident, but I’m not really.
I’m ………………………………………… .
4 I thought this exercise would be more difficult.
This exercise is ………………………………………… .
5 You said you’d arrive earlier.
You didn’t ………………………………………… .
Answer
2 argumentative (now) than I used to be
3 not as confident as people think (I am) / less confident than people think (I am)
4 easier than I thought it would be / less difficult than I thought it would be.
5 arrive as early as you said you would
5. Rewrite the sentences so that they have the same meaning. Use clauses with as.
1 My maths result and my physics result were terrible.
My maths result was terrible, as was my physics result.
2 My brother and I both have a lot in common with my dad.
………………………………………………
3 Today is sunny and yesterday was too.
………………………………………………
4 Harry and I would both like to study maths at university.
………………………………………………
5 My mum and my dad are calm and reasonable most of the time.
………………………………………………
6 Kate and Liam can both concentrate for long periods of time.
………………………………………………
Answer
2 My brother has a lot in common with my dad, as do I.
3 It’s sunny today, as it was yesterday.
4 Harry would like to study maths at university, as would I.
5 My mum is calm and reasonable most of the time, as is my dad.
6 Kate can concentrate for long periods of time, as can Liams.
Challenge!
Complete the sentences with your own ideas.
1 ………………………………………., as is Harry.
2 ………………………………………., as must I.
3 ………………………………………., as do we all.
4 ………………………………………., as did Jake.
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