GRAMMARWAY 2 - UNIT 16

Rezolvarea exercitiilor de la UNIT 16 din manualul de limba engleza pentru clasa VI intitulat ENGLISH GRAMMAR BOOK – GRAMMARWAY 2, Editura Express Publishing, Autori Jenny Dooney si Virginia Evans, Editia 1998

UNIT 16: Adjectives – Adverbs - Comparisons

Exercise 1

2. comfortable

3. bright

4. fresh

5. excellent

6. lovely

7. tall

8. quiet

Exercise 2

2. oval

3. generous

4. thick

5. long

6. careful

Exercise 3

2. some beautiful round china plates

3. a blue Venetian cryptal vase

4. an expensive gold ring

5. two old silver candlesticks

6. a lovely antique wooden radio

Exercise 4

-ly: badly, quietly, carefully

-le         ly: impossibly, horribly, simply

Consonant + y         ily: easily, noisily, lazily

Exercise 5

Adjective: good, cheap, tall, cold, wide, pretty

Adverb: nicely, well, sadly, strongly, softly, carefully, loudly

Adverb and Adjective: monthly, fast, early, late, hard

Exercise 6

how: quickly, slowly, cheerfully

where: here, there, somewhere, anywhere

when: last month, tomorrow, now, last week

how often: always, never, often, sometimes

Exercise 7

2. carelessly

3. angrily

4. fluently

5. heavily

6. carefully

7. politely

8. quickly

9. proudly

10. seriously

Exercise 8

2. good

3. easy

4. angrily, bad

5. cheerful, good

Exercise 9

2. loudly

3. warm

4. nice

5. sincerely

6. happily

7. wonderful

8. successful

Exercise 10

2. We went to Spain by plane.

3. She ran to work quickly.

4. My dog sleeps peacefully in the garden every afternoon.

5. They were talking quietly in the kitchen.

6. He played happily in his room all morning.

7. They crossed the street carefully.

8. I went to work by taxi yesterday.

9. They never go to the beach in winter.

10. He sometimes takes his children to the park.

Exercise 11

	Comparative	Superlative
2.	more expensive	most expensive
3.	stronger	strongest
4.	more difficult	most difficult
5.	more intelligent	most intelligent
6.	closer	closest
7.	more popular	most popular
8.	safer	safest
9.	more important	most important
10.	louder	loudest
11.	weaker	weakest
12.	tastier	tastiest
13.	more comfortable	most comfortable
14.	more delicious	most delicious

      

Exercise 12

2. harder   hardest

3. faster   fastest

4. more noisily    most noisily

5. earlier    earliest

6. more satisfactorily   most satisfactorily  

Exercise 13

2. Gold is more expensive than silver.

3. Canada is colder than Brazil.

4. Feathers are lighter than stones.

5. A car is faster than a bicycle.

Exercise 14

2. Yes, it’s the most frightening film I’ve ever seen.

3. Yes, she’s the most beautiful girl/ woman I’ve ever met.

4. Yes, she’s the most delicious cheesecake I’ve ever tasted.

5. Yes, it’s the worst record I’ve ever heard.

Exercise 15

2. narrower/ more

3. quickest

4. sooner

5. taller

6. most beautiful

7. prettiest

8. tastiest

Exercise 16

2. the most carelessly of

3. later than

4. the most beautifully of

5. the most clearly of

6. more generously, than

7. the hardest of

8. better than

Exercise 17

2. larger than – The Sahara desert is larger than the Gobi desert.

3. The heaviest – The blue whale

4. the longest – The Great Wall of China

5. higher than – Mount Everest is higher than Kilimanjaro.

6. the smallest – Australia

7. faster than – The cheetah runs faster than the lion.

8. loused … than – The blue whale makes a louder sound than the polar bear.

9. the tallest – The Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia.

10. better … than – A falcon has got better eyesight than a human.

Exercise 18

2. much

3. very

4. much

5. very

6. much

Exercise 19

2. longer than

3. more elegant

4. the most expensive

5. cheaper

6. later than

7. the best

8. the most expensive

Exercise 20

2. the most uncomfortable

3. the hottest

4. the biggest

5. more enjoyable

6. better

Exercise 21

2. The bicycle, the motorbike

3. The bicycle

4. The car, the bicycle

5. The motorbike, the car

6. The motorbike, the bicycle

7. The motorbike, the car

8. The motorbike, the bicycle

9. The motorbike

10. The bicycle

11. The bicycle, the motorbike

12. The car, the bicycle

13. The car

14. The car

Exercise 22

2. have never seen such

3. the most beautiful song

4. healthier than

5. as old as

6. is newer than

7. speak French as well as

8. the warmest sweater

9. is as expensive as

10. less handsome than

Exercise 23

1.     B

2.   A

3.   C

4.   B

5.    A

6.   C

7.    A

Exercise 24

2. The old bridge is being repaired at the moment.

3. The police had been informed about the planned robbery.

4. The results will be announced early tomorrow morning.

5. The film ‘The Birds’ was directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

6. Your room must be cleaned more often.

7. Clare was being followed while she was walking home.

8. The entrance to the embassy is guarded twenty-four hours a day.

Oral Activity

S1: The Red Dragon serves the healthiest food of all.

S2: The Regency Restaurant is more convenient than Roberto’s Pizza.

S3: The Regency Restaurant is the largest of all.

S4: Roberto’s Pizza isn’t as/ so expensive as the Red Dragon.

S5: The Red Dragon is less comfortable than the Regency Restaurant, etc.

Written Activity

Roberto’s Pizza is the least expensive of all. The Red Dragon serves healthier food than Roberto’s Pizza, but it is more expensive. The Regency Restaurant is the most expensive of all, but also the largest. Roberto’s Pizza is the least comfortable of all.