PRACTICE WITH ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS
1.Forms of adverbs and adjectives
Exercise 1 Fill the blanks with the words from the box. Make any changes to the adjectives necessary to form adverbs.
Polite
heavy
late
patient
public
reluctant
quarter
safe
1. When John Martin got to Abraca, he gave a ring to his company to let them know he had arrived safely.
2. The balance sheet of “Harper & Grant” is published and comes out in March, June, September and December.
3. The train to the airport arrived , and as a result John Martin nearly missed the plane to Abraca.
4. Harper & Grant Ltd. is a quoted company, so it enables stockbrokers and investors to buy and sell its shares.
5. Harper & Grant Ltd. Will have to borrow from its bank in order to modernize and to increase its business, profitability and competitiveness.
6. Mr. Grant was so busy, he could not wait , until Mr. Duncan was ready to see him.
7. When Elizabeth told Mr. Grant about the appointment with a valuable customer, he agreed to see him.
8. Mr. Grant warns Elizabeth to interrupt the interview after a short time with the excuse that there is someone else waiting to see him.
Exercise 2 Choose a word from box A and one from box B to complete the sentences.
a. surprisingly
b. badly
c. commercially
d. well
e. totally
f. terribly
g. qualified
h. quick
i. designed
j. viable
k. good
l. illegal
1. Mr. Grant's secretary Elizabeth Corby has been working for Harper and Grant Ltd. For many years, so she is certainly very well qualified.
2. The results of business activities of Harper and Grant Ltd. Were , and certainly much better than Hector Grant had thought.
3. The bank decided that the project was not , so they refused to give them a loan.
4. Insider dealing is - if they catch you, you could go to prison.
5. If filing cabinets, produced by Harper and Grant Ltd., were , the company could soon gain a reputation for unreliability.
6. Mr. McPherson spoke and not to the point, so Mr. Grant could not understand him and had to interrupt the interview.
Exercise 3 Choose either an adjective or an adverb from the words in italics.
1. Their new offices in the city look very impressive impressively
2. It's a pity that airline food never tastes as good well as it looks.
3. John Martin reacted calm calmly when Elizabeth told him the bad news that one of his secretaries was ill.
4. The new model of filing cabinets from Harper and Grant Ltd. Looked very expensive expensively .
5. Mr. Duncan said that he intended to place a big order for office equipment with Harper and Grant Ltd. As the furniture they used to order was bad badly designed.
6. They've changed the clocks, so now it gets dark darkly at about 3.00 in the afternoon.
7. Mr. Martin asked his secretary to bring some more coffee that tasted sour sourly .
8. Fenella, the secretary Elizabeth asked the Chief Clerk in the General office to lend them seemed very incompetent incompetently .
9.Most policy decisions are taken at the head office, but day to day decisions are taken local locally .
Exercise 4 Read this letter from a retailer to a manufacturer of air-conditioners. Choose either the adjective or the adverb in brackets.
Dear Mrs Jones,
I am writing with reference to a recent recently shipment of 16 M-U3 air-conditioning units which we received on Tuesday 7 May.
Unfortunately, three of the units are not working proper properly . One of them may have been broken in transit as the packing case was bad badly dented, and I suggest you take this matter up with your insurers. The two others looked fine finely , but when we tested them they sounded very noisy noisily , and their cooling systems seemed very ineffective ineffectively .
I am there for arranging for the three units to be returned to you immediate immediately . I would be grateful gratefully if you could send us three new units as soon as possible, as the warm warmly weather is approaching and we are expecting strong strongly demand for air-conditioners in the next few weeks.
I look forward to hearing from you,
H. Watson Stores Manager.
H. Watson
Stores Manager.
2. Comparison: comparing adjectives
Exercise 1 Fill in the blanks by putting the adjectives into the correct form.
Two multinational consumer giants, Sony and Philips, are fighting a fierce war to provide a replacement for the standard cassette tape. Sony has produced the Minidisk, and Philips has backed the Digital Compact Cassette (DCC).
According to Sony, the Minidisk will appeal to a 1.(wide) wider range of consumers than DCC. The minidisk themselves are (small) and (portable) than DCCs, and the players are (easy) to carry around. Sony claims that its sales of Minidisk players refer to units shipped, not actual sales, and that the real sales figure is much (low) .
Philips, which has spent L 65 pounds m in developing DCCs, says that the sound quality of Minidisc is not as (good) as DCCs, and that DCC players, which are (large) and (sophisticated) that Sony's will sell to (serious) customers.
According to Philips there is room for both products. Its spokesperson said, ‘The Minidisc will appeal to people who want a tiny, expensive walkman to show off, and DCC will sell to (quality-conscious) consumers. The minidisc is a much (sexy) idea, sure but DCC is much (sensible) .
Exercise 2 Rewrite the sentences using the present perfect and a superlative.
1. I have never been to such a long meeting.
That was the longest meeting I have ever been to.
2. I have never heard such a boring presentation.
That was
3. I have never dealt with such difficult customers.
They are
4. We have never produced a product as good as this.
This is
5. I have never used a program as simple as this.
Exercise 3 Read the information and write sentences using the words in brackets.
1. In 1991, British Telecom made profits of $3,557 mln.
It is (no. 2 / profitable company / world).
It is the second most profitable company in the world
2. Yoshiaki Tsutsumi deals in land, railways, and resorts, and has a personal fortune of $10 billion.
He is (no. 2 / rich / person / world).
3. Exxon had sales of $103.242 million in 1991.
It is (no. 3 / large / industrial corporation / world).
4. Hector Grant from Britain owns supermarkets, and is worth $6.9 billion.
He is (no. 4 / wealthy / person / world).
Exercise 4 Write sentences comparing the following items.
1. The company I work for / the last company I worked for.
(big) The company I work for is bigger than the last company I worked for.
(small) It is not as small as the last company I worked for.
2. The work I do now / my last job.
(hard to do) (easy to do)
3. Inflation this year / it was last year
(high) (low)
4. Our company / our main competitor
(large) (small)
3. Comparison: comparing adverbs
Exercise 1 Complete the sentences with the comparative forms of the adverbs in the box.
a) Early
b) fast
c) late
d) badly
1. I arrived in New York a little later than I had planned because the plane was delayed by bad weather.
2. I got to the meeting a few minutes a b c d than the others, so I had time to look through my papers before we started.
3. The company did a b c d than analysts had been expecting, so their shares fell when they announced their losses for the years.
4. I speak Spanish well, but my assistant speaks it even a b c d than I do.
Exercise 2 Complete the sentences with the comparative form of adverbs in the box.
a) Carefully
b) frequently
c) quietly
d) slowly
e) efficiently
1. I don't think Qantas flies to Paris very often. Air France flies there much more frequently.
2. There were a lot of mistakes in that report you gave me last week. I think you must check your figures a bit more a b c d e .
3. Could you speak a little more a b c d e , please? I don't understand English very well.
4. The new engine uses fuel more a b c d e than previous models, so it is cheaper to run.
5. We used to have a very noisy dot matrix printer, but the new ink jet prints much more a b c d e .
Exercise 3 Compare the fuel consumption of three 4-wheel drive vehicles, measures in miles per gallon (m/gall) using more ... than, the most, fewer ... than, the fewest, not as many ... as.
4x
V6
Hobo
m/gall
gall/100
Town driving
21.5
4.65
19.0
5.26
19.5
5.12
Motor driving
23.0
4.35
21.0
4.76
18.5
5.40
Touring
29.5
3.39
25.0
4.0
26.0
3.85
Average
24.0
4.16
1. In town, the 4x does the most miles to the gallon.
2. In town, the Hobo does miles to the gallon the V6.
3. On the motorway, the Hobo does miles to the gallon
4. On the motorway, the V6 does not do miles to the gallon.
5. Touring, the Hobo does miles to the gallon the 4x.
6. Touring, the V6 does miles to the gallon.
7. On average, the Hobo does miles to the gallon.
8. On average, the 4x does miles to the gallone than the V6.
Exercise 4 Read the information again. Now compare how much petrol each car uses per 100 miles (gall/100), using more ... than, less ... than, not as much ... as, the most, the least.
1. In town, the Hobo uses more petrol than the 4x.
2. In town, the V6 uses petrol of the three models.
3. On the motorway, the Hobo uses petrol the V6.
4. On the motorway, the 4x uses petrol of the three models.
5. When touring, the Hobo does not use petrol the V6.
6. When touring, the Hobo uses petrol the 4x.
7. On average, the V6 uses petrol the Hobo.
8. On average, the Hobo uses petrol of the three models.
Exercise 5 Complete the sentences using an adverb of your choice in the superlative:
1. Of the three bank tellers, I would say he probably works the fastest.
2. Of all the people in the Sales Department, I think Peter works .
3. We all go on business trip quite often, but Jane goes .
4. Of the shares I have, the ones I have in ICI have performed .
5. Of all the companies we looked at, DHE deliver mail .
6.I did not like any of their representatives at all, but I thought Henry behaved .
4. Degree: too, enough, so, such, such a
Exercise 1 Put either too or enough in the correct space in each sentence. Put a dash (-) in the other space.
1. We need new premises. This building isn't too enough - big enough.
2. We've changed our insurers because we felt the premiums we were paying were too enough - high too enough - .
3. He's not a very good manager – he doesn't communicate his ideas too enough - clearly too enough - .
4. It's never too enough - early too enough - to start contributing to a pension.
5. You'd better fax them the information. If you post it, it will drive too enough - late too enough - .
6.You needn't rewrite the report. Its too enough - good too enough - .
Exercise 2 The Publicity Manager of a book distribution company is commenting on the first draft of this year's catalogue. Fill in the blanks with too much, too many, too few, or too little.
1. There are too many sections. They make the catalogue confusing.
2. There are too much too many too few too little printing errors. These must be corrected.
3. There is too much too many too few too little space given to new titles. They should have a whole page.
4. There is too much too many too few too little information about each title. It needs to be shorter.
5. There are too much too many too few too little different text styles. We have to make it more varied.
6. There are too much too many too few too little entries in the index. This needs to be much shorter.
Exercise 3 Combine the following sentences using too and enough.
1. The exhibition was too far away. We couldn't attend it.
The exhibition was too far away for us to attend.
2. Your products are too expensive. We can't buy them .
3. This contract is too complicated. I can't understand it .
4. My fax wasn't clear enough. He couldn't read it .
5. Your quotation wasn't low enough. We couldn't accept it .
6. The project was too risky. They couldn't go ahead with it .
Exercise 4 Fill in the blank with so and such. Then mach the words to the things they describe.
1 . so entertaining / such marvelous acting / written so well.
2. good graphics fast / unrfriendly.
3. a good idea / clever / useful.
4. light decorated beautifully / modern.
5. tasty / presented nicely / good value.
6. nice weather / friendly people / lovely beaches.
7. illogical / useful / easy to learn.
8. fair / a good sense of humour / supportive.
An office, an invention, a language, a colleague, a film,
a computer, a meal in a restaurant, a holiday destination
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