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Comparatives and Superlatives b2 Activities

The document provides examples of sentences with missing words to be filled in using comparative forms of adjectives and adverbs provided in brackets. It then provides additional sentences and passages with transformations involving comparatives to be completed or evaluated for correctness. The summaries focus on the key aspects of comparing and transforming sentences using comparative forms.

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Comparatives and Superlatives b2 Activities

The document provides examples of sentences with missing words to be filled in using comparative forms of adjectives and adverbs provided in brackets. It then provides additional sentences and passages with transformations involving comparatives to be completed or evaluated for correctness. The summaries focus on the key aspects of comparing and transforming sentences using comparative forms.

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Fill in the missing words using the word in bracelets.

1. She's not nearly as good at cooking as you.


You are at cooking than her. (MUCH)
2. Fast food isn't nearly as healthy as fruit.
Fruit is than fast food. (FAR)
3. My computer isn't as old as yours.
Your computer is than mine. (MUCH)
4. It's not quite as cold today as it was yesterday.
Yesterday was a today. (BIT)

Use these expressions in the correct sentences:


A lot newer than a lot slower as expensive as less interested far better
1. Your school bag is
mine. I bought mine ages ago.

2. John is
than me at maths. He gets high scores in all the tests.

3. My friend cycles
than I do, so he's generally late for school.

4. I'm definitely
in art than in music - I hate painting and going to galleries.

5. This handbag wasn't


you might think. I bought it in a sale.

1. Much less water flooded into the house than I expected.


Correct
Wrong
2. There are less people here than promised to come.
Correct
Wrong
3. Tennis is a far harder game than football.
Correct
Wrong
4. The more you protest, more guilty you look!
Correct
Wrong
5. This house is twice as big as the other one we saw.
Correct
Wrong
6. Your dog is so friendlier than my one.
Correct
Wrong
7. That company is considerably richest than that one.
Correct
Wrong
8. That's by far the largest dam I've ever seen.
Correct
Wrong

TRANSFORMATIONSSSS

1. He has never scored so highly in a test as he did in this one.


This ........................................ score he has received in a test.

2. The shop is not very busy today compared to yesterday.


The shop is not ........................................ it was yesterday.
3. We were told that the show was not very entertaining but it was.
The show ........................................ than we had been told.

4. I've never had to wait this long for a bus before.


This ........................................ I have ever had to wait for a bus.

5. We had the same meal tonight and last night.


Dinner tonight ........................................ as it was last night.

6. I don't think I have ever had such a bad haircut.


This ........................................ haircut I hav

For each sentence, choose the correction combination of comparatives to make a sentence.

1. The ____ you study for these exams, the ____ you will do.
hard - better
harder - more successfully
much - better
more - good
2. She doesn't really like vodka, so the ____ a bottle you find, the ____ it will be for us!
small - cheaper
smaller - cheap
smaller - good
smaller - cheaper
3. My neighbor is driving me mad! It seems that the ____ it is at night, the ____ he plays his music!
later - more loud
late - louder
later - louder
more late - loud
4. He spent a year in India and loves spicy food. The ____ the food is, the ____ he likes it.
hotter - more
hot - much
hotter - much
hot - more
5. Of course you can come to the party! The ____ the ____.
more - merrier
more - good
many - better
6. She will be really angry about that vase being broken! The ____ she knows about it, the ____.
more - better
less - better
worse - worse
worse - better
7. He has 6 large dogs to protect his house. The ____ the dog, the ____ he feels.
big - safer
biger - safer
bigger - safer
more big - more safe
8. Earning money has always been the thing that pleases him most. The ____ he becomes, the ____
he is.
more rich - happyer
richer - happyer
richer - happier
9. You must drive slower in built up areas. The ____ you drive in the city, the ____ it is that you
will have an accident.
faster - probable
quicker - probably
faster - more probably
quicker - more probable

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