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Grammar 1 Comparison of adjectives

A. A student is designing a personality survey.
Read the draft of the survey and discuss these
questions with a partner.
1. What do you learn about the personality of the
student who wrote this survey?
2. Is this student as kind as you?
3. Could the student have been a little more
thoughtful about the questions?
4. The student needs to rewrite this draft. What
advice would you give him/her?
Personality Survey (Draft)

1. When I look at my classmates, I am…
a) as clever as everyone else.
b) much cleverer than everyone else.
c) far cleverer than everyone else.
2. My best friend is… D. Complete the texts with the correct form of the
a) almost as attractive as me. adjectives in the boxes.
b) slightly less attractive than me.
c) nowhere near as attractive as me. annoying clever expensive good
3. I’m happy because my house is…
a) a little larger than yours. obsessed old strict tall
b) a lot larger than yours. Maya’s my best friend, and we’ve known each
c) a great deal larger than yours. other since primary school. She’s slightly
1 than me, but only by a couple of
B. Discuss with your partner. Are these sentences inches. We’re both quite studious, but I’m nowhere
true for you? near as 2 as she is – she gets top
marks in absolutely everything! But her parents are a
1. My English teacher is a great deal taller than lot 3 than mine, and they make her
my maths teacher. study loads.
2. I’m almost as tall as my English teacher. I think I’m lucky as I get on quite well with my little
3. I’m slightly older than my best friend. brother. A couple of years ago, he was far

4. I’m much more outgoing than other people in 4 , and we used to fight a lot. But
my family. now I enjoy hanging out with him, and we play a
lot of games together. I need to be careful though
5. I’m a little more rebellious than my classmates.
– he’s getting much 5 , and he’ll start
6. English is nowhere near as difficult as history.
beating me soon!
7. I’m a lot better at languages than science.
I met Jaime at a sci-fi convention – he’s almost as
8. I find it far easier to study in the morning than 6 with Star Wars as I am. I couldn’t
in the evening. believe it when I went to his house and saw his Star

Wars collection – he’s even got a Stormtrooper suit!
C. Look at the comparative phrases in exercise B. He’s slightly 7 than me though and
Do these express a large or small difference? has already started work, so as he’s got a job, he
What is the difference between the phrases can buy things which are a great deal
almost as…as and nowhere near as…as? 8 than what I can afford.

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