HANDOUT 21 KEY
GRAMMAR GOALS. BLACK CAT. Reference and practice for
intermediate students
VICENS VIVES
UNT 66 COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES (3) – ADVERBS
1.
1. more skillfully
2. more artistically
3. the most deeply/ deepest
4. more sensitively
5. the best
6. more rapidly
7. the most conscientiously
8. more fluently
9. The most elegantly
2.
1. the least noisily
2. studies the least hard
3. less successfully than anyone else.
4. does the work the least carefully.
3.
1. far longer
2. far less gracefully
3. slightly less elegantly
4. Far more politely
5. far more elegantly
4. (suggested answers)
1. He drives a lot faster than he should.
2. They swim the most elegantly
3. The English behave far more politely than the Germans.
4. Teachers work longer than air controllers.
5. She eats slightly more greedily than her sister.
UNT 67 COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES (4)
1.
1. more dishonest
2. higher
3. more
4. more
5. more easily
6. more scandalous
7. more successful
8. higer
9. higher
10. older
11. more stupid
2.
1. the easier / the less (Type 2)
2. the more / the happier (Type 2)
3. The fatter / the emptier (Type 1)
4. the shinier /the cheaper (type 1)
5.the older/ the wiser (type 2)
6. the colder / the warmer (type 1)
7. the more / the less (type 2)
3. Correct alternatives:
1. fewer / more
2. less
3. fewer Y/ more
4. less / more
5. fewer / more
6. more imaginative
7. most expensive
8. most delicious / most enjoyable
9. absolutely
10. very
4.
1. less attractive than I thought
2. less luxurious than I believed
3. bigger than you expected
4. taller than you imagine
5. is cheaper (this week) than when we went