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Combining rich illustrations and authentic exercises, How English Works makes the learning and practising of grammar both a pleasure and a challenge. The author's imaginative and wholly original approach to the presentation and organisation of their text offers students a lively, purposeful package to give them a confident command of English forms and their uses. Designed for students working on their own, but also ideal for use in class, How English Works covers all the key elements in the standard EFL grammar syllabus, and many other topics which are often ignored.
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Oxford English Grammar Course Intermediate TEST 16 • comparison
Name
● 1 The basics. Write the comparatives and superlatives. ▲
angry bad clever fat good happy hard
angrier angriest
hot important polite rude sad slim stupid
● 2 Using comparatives and superlatives. Correct (✓) or not (✗)? 1 2 3 4 5
Your handwriting is the worse than mine. Barbara’s worst quality is her impatience. Maths was my strongest subject at school. George is the more experienced of my four colleagues. The hotel only has two rooms left; would you like to have the bigger one?
● 3 as … as; comparatives.
Circle the correct option(s). (More than one may be possible.)
both my sisters. B as clever as
▲
I am A clever as
1 She’s not A as hard-working as 2 Simon drives A same car
C cleverer than
a lot of the other people in her class. B so hard-working as as his brother. B a same car
3 Joanna definitely works as hard A as me B as do I
C so hard-working so C the same car
. C as I do
4 I couldn’t understand him because he was speaking A faster and faster B more and more quickly
.. C more quickly and more quickly
5 A Better
C The better
I get at chess, the more I enjoy playing it. B A better
6 The more A she has friends 7 Guy’s A far 8 I think that I know A any
, the happier she is. B friends she has
C has she friends
better at maths than me. B much C very more about computers than you do. B a bit C
a little
● 4 Superlatives. Put in in, of, the or – (= nothing). 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Mount Everest is highest mountain the world. Tony is tallest my three brothers. This is biggest city my country. This tea tastes best when you drink it without milk. Breakfast is most important meal the day. I feel happiest when I’m with my friends. I got lots of great presents, but that coat you bought me was best present
all.
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Oxford English Grammar Course • Intermediate TEST 16 • comparison © Michael Swan and Catherine Walter PHOTOCOPIABLE
● 5 like and as; so and such. Put in like, as, such, such a or so. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
you know, tomorrow’s meeting is very important. She is clever woman that everybody listens to her. Carol really looks her mother when she smiles. I worked a waiter in a café when I was a student. I didn’t realise that you were good at tennis. He cooks well that everybody wants to eat at his house. I’ll meet you for lunch at 1 o’clock usual. Why can’t you work hard your sister? Don’t use your pen a spoon to stir your coffee! Don’t be baby! The dog won’t hurt you. You’re so lucky to have good teachers in your school. your father, I think that what you did was completely wrong. We both agree about this.
● 6 Comparatives. All the sentences contain mistakes: correct them. Rewrite the corrected sentences below. ▲
1 2 3 4 5
The more I talk to my new boss, more I like her.
The more I talk to my new boss, the more I like her.
The more I read this book, the least I understand. The faster you drive, the