- Fill in the table with the correct comparative and superlative forms.
| Positive
| Comparative
| Superlative
| Positive
| Comparative
| Superlative
|
| fast
| Faster
| The fastest
| compatible
| More compatible
| Mast compatible
|
| main
| Mainer
| The minest
| safe
| safer
| saferest
|
| intelligent
| More intelligent
| Most intelligent
| hot
| hotter
| hottest
|
| bad
| Wors
| The worst
| efficient
| More efficient
| Mast efficient
|
| wide
| wider
| The widest
| good
| better
| The best
|
| hard
| harder
| The hadest
| interactive
| More interactive
| Mast interactive
|
- Complete the sentences with the adjectives in comparative and superlative forms. Use the adjectives from the box.
| many little easy small powerful slow
|
- A notebook PC is a lightweight computer which is portable and has a _ smoler_ screen than a desktop PC.
- Optical drives are _ slower __ than hard drives and can hold only 1.4 MB disks.
- A supercomputer is _ most_powerful __ type of computers.
- It supports multiple users at the same time and can support _ more _ simultaneous processes than a PC.
- _ The easiest _ way to get information about new virus in your computer is to install a firewall.
- Typical CRT-based displays occupy _ less _ space than LCD displays
- Fill in the dialogue as in the example:
M: I'm happy I'm not a woman!
W: Why?
M: Men are 0) better than (good) women.
W: But you are 1) stupidest person I know!
M: Don't be horrible. Men are 2) more intelligent women. They are 3) more logical
and 4) better cooks than women are!
W: Your ideas are 5) more old-fashioned than mine. I think women are 6) clevere r.
They are 7) more sensible and 8) more practical than men are - and men are
9) wors drivers than women because women are 10) more patient.
M: But men are 11) more athletic.
W: Oh, please. Let's talk about something else. This is 12) the most ridiculous conversation I
have ever had!
- Complete each sentence as in the example:
- (It is dangerous.) The faster you drive, the more dangerous it is.
- (Your personal income will be high.) The harder you work, the harer personal inkomwill be.
- (It gets slow.) The more people use your network, the slower network it is ________.
- (We'll get an out-dated computer.) The less we pay, the more out dated computer we get _.
- (It is quiet.) The further we are from the city, the quieter it is____________________.
- (The roads became busy.) The nearer we got to the city centre, the busier roads become.
- Fill in the gaps with the necessary form of the adjectives.
Dear Wendy,
You asked me for advice on what to study at university, so I thought I'd write straight back because 0) the sooner (soon) you make a decision, 1) _ the quicker_ you'll be able to apply for a place. You say you are not 2) so interested in the Sciences as you are in the Arts. That's all very well, but the Fine Arts are much 3) _ much less useful than the Sciences when it comes to getting a job at the end of the course. As you know it's getting 4) _ more _ difficult for graduates to find work these days. You may prefer painting to studying Information Technology but, let me tell you, Art is 5) more useless of all the subjects you could do. Of course, the final decision is up to you, but I would prefer to see you get a degree that would lead to a 6) the best job rather than leave institute unable to find a job at all.
With love,
Aunty Kelly
- Fill in very or much.
Henry has just bought a 1) _ very nice new computer. It is 2) _ much _ faster than his old one. It is 3) _ much _ more stylish than any of his friends' computers. And so it should be, because it was 4) _____ expensive indeed. He spent 5) _ much _ more money on his computer than he could afford and his friends think he was 6) _ vey _ foolish to buy it.
- Comlete the sentences with so... as, not so.. as, as... as.
- A laptop can work __ as _ fast __ as _ a desktop PC with similar processors.
- The fourth generation of computers is _ not _ __ so _ powerful _ as _ a supercomputer.
- A notebook PC is __ as _ efficient _ as __ a desktop PC.
- I consider Linux to be _ not _ __ so _ widely used __ as _ Windows.
- Graduating from the institute, you are __ as _ experienced _ as __ a real electrical engineer.
- Computer knowledge is __ so _ good _ as __ knowing a foreign language when getting a job.
- Translate the sentences from Russian into English.
- 1. I found a good job of the programmer. It's much better than my previous post of Secretary in a small computer company.
- 2. Supercomputer - the most powerful computer in the world today.
- 3. She just could not (couldn't but) not proud of their new PSP - as advanced as that of all her friends.
- 4. I have the largest collection of game discs.
- 5. Each successive generation of any device appears faster than the previous.
- 6. Modern computer helps make people much more effective.
- 7. Mobile GPRS - a very quick way of orientation in unfamiliar territory.
- 8. The smarter you are, the higher his IQ.
- 9. It is best to save the environment now than to deal with an environmental disaster.
- 10. Yesterday he bought a new plasma TV and spent it more than I could afford.
- 11. Today, electricity is the most common source of energy.
- 12. Michael - one of the most qualified experts in their field.
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