A2
English Grammar Exercises for A2 – Comparison
5 ejercicios
1. Complete the table with the comparative forms.
| Adjective | Comparative |
| Short adjectives | |
| tall | 1 |
| large | 2 |
| hot | 3 |
| early | 4 |
| Long adjectives | |
| powerful | 5 |
| spectacular | 6 |
| Irregular adjectives | |
| good | 7 |
| bad | 8 |
| far | 9 |
| Quantifiers | |
| few | 10 |
| much / many | 11 |
| little | 12 |
2. Complete the fact file. Use the comparative form of the words in brackets.
- ● Comets are made of ice and pieces of rock. Asteroids are made of rock and metal, and are 1) (heavy).
- ● Most comets are much 2) (big) than most asteroids.
- ● You can find asteroids 3) (close) to the sun than comets. If comets get too close to the sun, they melt. So you can only find comets much 4) (far) from the sun, where it is 5) (cold) and ice doesn’t melt.
- ● Comets are 6) (bright) than asteroids because they have long, white tails.
- ● Comets are 7) (rate) than asteroids. There are hundreds of millions of asteroids in our solar system, but far 8) (few) comets – only about 4,000. For this reason, asteroids are 9) (dangerous), as one of them is 10) (likely) to hit the Earth.
3. Compare the weather in the two cities. Write sentences with as … as and not as … as.
- 1)Edinburgh isn’t as sunny as London. (sunny)
- 2)(warm)
- 3)(cloudy)
- 4)(bright)
- 5)(wet)
- 6)(windy)
- 7)(dry)
4. Complete the sentences with as, more, much or than.
- 1)Mist isn’t as thick fog.
- 2)The weather today is wetter yesterday.
- 3)‘Is a hurricane powerful than a thunderstorm?’ ‘Yes, it’s stronger.’
- 4)The moon isn’t bright the sun.
- 5)Are hurricanes more dangerous tornadoes?
- 6)‘I think maths is much interesting geography.’
- ‘Do you? I don’t think it’s interesting as geography, but it’s more useful.’
5. Write comparative sentences and questions.
- 1)New York / cold / Los Angeles.
- New York is colder than Los Angeles.
- 2)The Atlantic Ocean / stormy / the Mediterranean
- 3)Hawaii / as beautiful / Tahiti
- 4)Manchester / not as big / London
- 5)earthquakes / as dangerous / mudslides?
- 6)hailstorms / frequent / tornadoes
- 7)Rome / hot / Cairo?
- 8)storms / not as scary / hurricanes
- 9)hailstones / big / snowflakes?
- 10)London / not as sunny / Madrid
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