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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) |
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2. Complete the fact file. Use the comparative form of the words in brackets.
FACT FILE: COMETS AND ASTEROIDS
● 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)__________________ (rare) 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.
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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)
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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.’