Our Family Is a Happy One - Fred Gee

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Exercise -1.

Complete these sentences with the correct course of the adjectives in
parentheses.

one. The less he works, (happy) he is.

2. The bigger the car, (fast) you can get.

three. (fresh) it is, (skillful) it volition taste.

4. (more than) yous swallow, (fat) you will get.

5. (less) you spend, (more) yous save.

6. Information technology was becoming (cold) and (common cold).

vii. I was getting more and (excited).

8. The weather was bad and getting (bad) and (bad).

ane. the happier	v. The less, … the more
2. the faster	6. colder … colder
3. The fresher, … the better	seven. more excited
four. The more, … the fatter	8. worse … worse

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Exercise 2.

Choose the correct comparison word in the following sentences.

1. Of the xx applicants, Athena is the (better/best) qualified.

two. Of the ii dogs, Rover is the (meliorate/best).

3. I am the (elder/eldest) of my five sisters.

iv. I am (elder/eldest) than my brother.

5. (Among/Betwixt) the two countries, they should be able to raise the money for aid.

six. Of all the speeches I heard, his was the (more/about) compelling.

7. After returning from our holiday, I was (happier/happiest) to be home.

8. (Among/Between) the iii contained candidates, only he seemed qualified.

9. It was certainly the (less/least) of the ii evils.

10. She was the (shorter/shortest) member of the graduating class.

1. all-time	three. oldest	5. Betwixt	vii. happier	9. less
two. better	4. older	vi. most	8. Among	10. shortest

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Exercise-3
Ascertain whether the following sentences are Truthful (T) or FALSE (F).
Correct mistakes.

one. This book is more better than that one.

2. This year'due south prices will certainly exist much higher equally last year's prices.

3. Since in that location were ii possible ways to get to New York, nosotros had to decide which one was better.

4. The community in this country are more traditional than those in the United States.

5. Her alphabetic character was more friendlier than this.

half-dozen. She was happier than anybody in her family unit.

vii. Nancy was luckier than Fred in Las Vegas.

8. Betty's homework is unremarkably more organized than that of any other students in the class.

ix. The weather condition was much hotter this year than in 1970.

10.The concluding exam was more than difficult than the mid-semester examination.

11.The first functioning was more crowded every bit the 2d one.

12.The new student reads faster than anyone else in the grade.

13. Fred's project proposal was much more economical than Brad's.

fourteen. Robert'southward new home is more than expensive than whatsoever house in the neighborhood.

fifteen. Henry had a rather bad blow, and information technology was a miracle that he was not injure more worse than he was.

1. F, is better than	6. F, everyone else in the family unit	11 .F, more crowded than
2. F, be higher than	7. T	12.T
three. T	viii. T	13.T
4. T	9. F, than that in 1970	14.F, than any other house
5. F, was friendlier than	x.T	xv. F, worse than

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Exercise-four
Define whether the following sentences are TRUE (T) or FALSE (T).
Correct mistakes.

one. They were the nearly poorest people I had ever seen.

2. West Germany is one of the near highly industrialized nations in the world.

3. When he won the contest, he was the well-nigh surprised person than the other contestants.

4. I went to Belgium, Holland, and England last year, and I liked Kingdom of belgium better.

5. Is the Sahara the largest desert in the world?

vi. Baronial is the hottest and most humid month of the year.

7. It was the well-nigh biggest building I had e'er seen.

8. That company sold the nearly sophisticated computer equipment that we had ever constitute.

9. Dr. Henderson was the almost thorough md than Jane ever known.

10. John, Phyllis, and Mary were all saving money to get to Egypt, and John saved the most.

11. Paula, Susie, and Jill bought new homes, but Paula'southward was more elegant.

12. Peking is almost densely populated metropolis in the world.

13. The damage caused by the hurricane was the worst than had always occurred in that state.

14. She bought a new colour television, a stereo unit, and an AM/FM radio and the tv set was the most expensive.

15. Mary is the fastest runner than the other team members.

sixteen. You can employ any of those three pens, but the red one is the best for marking on heavy material.

17.That identify serves the goodest ice foam in boondocks.

18. Dr. Jones was certainly among the smartest men I had ever known.

xix. He got the baddest grade he had e'er received on an test.

twenty. The crimes committed by that murderer were the about heinous in the history of that boondocks.

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1. F, the poorest people	xi. F, the most elegant
2. T	12. F, the most densely
3. F, the most surprised person of all the	13. F, the worst that
4. F, liked Belgium the best	14.T
5. T 13. F, the worst that	15.F, the fastest runner of the team
6. F, the most humid	16.Т
7. F, the biggest	17. F, the best ice-foam
viii. T	18.T
9. F, doctor that	19. F, the worst form
10.T	20.T

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Exercise-five
Correct the following sentences.

1. Bob was the biggest of the twins.

2. You wouldn't meet a more kinder lady.

3. The patient fabricated the wonderfulest recovery.

4. Mary was every bit old similar Jane.

5. Who is the tallest, Jack or Betty?

half dozen. The more brilliant students exercise not e'er practise well in tests.

vii. The noise in Rome is far worst than in Florence.

8. I am not equally rich equally he.

nine. She has more time than me.

ten. We are stronger than they.

11.They are more ignorant than u.s..

12. He does not like I equally much as her.

13. He is not equally fast as she.

14. You speak English ameliorate than he.

15. She loved him more than I.

one. the bigger	6. The brighter students	xi. than we are
two. a kinder lady	seven. is far worse	12. does not like me as much as her
3. the most wonderful	8. as he is	13. as she is recovery
4. as sometime as Jane	9. than I exercise	14. than he does
5. Who is taller ….	10.than they are	15. than I did

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Exercise-6
Most of the following sentences contain one fault. Write TRUE (T) or
FALSE (F). Correct mistakes.

1. Worsted fabrics are more smoother than ordinary wool cloth.

ii. The best surfing beaches face west.

3. Please take the biggest of these two pieces of pie.

4. Our representative made the list of the most obscure members of Congress.

5. Hydrogen is the virtually arable of all the elements in the sun.

vi. Of all the written records people take made, the before are accounts of financial transactions.

seven. Michael and Ralph both talk a bully deal, but Ralph is the most talkative of the two.

8. Nanette is the nearly unusual person I have ever known.

9. Margot and Keith both did well on the driving test, only Keith got the higher score.

10. In this suit I feel every bit if I could win an award for a worse-dressed person of the year.

11. Of the twins, Len weights near and is tallest.

ane. F, are smoother	five. T	nine. T
2. T	6. F, the primeval	10. F, worst-dressed
3. F, the bigger	vii. F, the more than talkative	11. F, weighs more than and is taller
4. T	viii. T

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Practice-7

Identify the ONE underlined discussion or phrase A or В that should exist
corrected or rewritten. Time: v minutes.

1. California, with a population of more than 23 meg, is the more than (A) populous (B) state in America.

2. The gorilla is much (A) in danger of extinction as is (B) the giant tortoise.

3. Which plant is (A) the hardier (B) to survive a long, dry summer: the ivy, the fern or the cactus?

4. The Empire State Building, though not equally high (A), is elderberry than (B) the World Trade Center in New York.

5. In human being, yellow-blue color incomprehension is (A) less common as (B) scarlet-green color blindness.

6. The family-sized farm is no longer economically competitive (A) like (B) information technology was in the 19th century.

7. The surface area of the United States is divided into fifty states, of which the largest (A) is Alaska and the almost minor (B) is Rhode Island.

viii. Predators are bottom (A) of a danger than (B) farmers recall.

nine. The loftier (A) the charge per unit of inflation, the higher (B) the price of bolt.

x. Los Angeles and San Francisco are 2 of the more (A) visited cities (B) on the West Coast.

eleven. Non as many (A) children read books as a recreational activity than they (B) used to. Comparisons

12. Drugs sold over the counter are much more ameliorate (A) packaged now than (B) they used to be.

13. The electron microscope is a newer (A) and far complexer (B) research tool than the low-cal microscope, magnifying cells up to 200, 000 times.

fourteen. Some animals need more than highlier (A) adult sense cells than homo (B) to survive in their struggle for beingness.

15. Lesser (A) than a decade (B) after the get-go of the 20th century, San Francisco was ruined by an earthquake.

16. The start settlers planted corn, ate pumpkins and squash like (A) the American (B) Indians did.

17. Computers, a fastly growing (A) industry, are effecting the everyday lives of about people (B) in industrialized countries.

18. Full general Grant was not an aristocrat like General Lee (A) and did not have the privileges like (B) Lee had in his life.

nineteen. The yield of grain from a hectare of corn is several times loftier (A) equally that from (B) a hectare of wheat.

twenty. The sequoia trees, some of which are more 3, 000 years sometime, are amongst the largest (A) and sometime trees (B) in the globe.

1. A	two. A	three. B	four. B	five. B	6. B	seven. B	8.A	nine. A	ten. A
xi. B	12. A	13. B	14. A	15. A	16. A	17. A	18. B	xix. A	xx. B

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Exercise-8
Correct the following sentences.

1. He arrived more late than his boss.

2. Instead of slowing down, he drove more fastly.

3. He did this examination easily than the ane before.

iv. She drives worst than I on the freeway.

5. Try and come more early tomorrow.

6. He ran quicker than all the others.

seven. Peter works most hard of all.

8. He did very bad in the exam.

9. I would like to go to the schoolhouse every bit the one my sis goes to.

10. Your flat is the same size to mine.

xi. That garden is as cute like the one in the park.

12. She looks as her female parent.

xiii.This blouse is the same expensive as that ane.

14. He is as intelligent than his brother.

15. Tom's suit is the same way that Bob's.

16. Your shoes are the aforementioned color similar mine.

i. later	half dozen. ran more than apace	11. as cute equally mine
ii. drove faster	seven. works the hardest of all	12. like her mother
iii. more than easily	8. did very desperately	13. equally expensive as
4. drives worse than I do	ix. similar the one	14. every bit intelligent equally
5. come earlier	10. equally mine	xiv. equally intelligent every bit
xvi. the same color as

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