Exercise 3: Choose the best answer.

1.    Examinations make me __  . I always get __( angry/ being nervous,  anger/ nervous,  angrily/ nervous,  angry/ nervous)

2.    Goodyear worked _____ for the benefit of mankind. ( devote,  devoted,  devotedly,  more devotedly)

3.    Mike was not feeling very well so we gave him __to do than you. ( fewer works,  less work, little works,  least work)

4.    Everyone looks much ____today than he did yesterday. ( happy,  happily,  more happily ,  happier)

5.    I found it very _____ to read the book. ( amusing,  amused,  amuse,  amusingly)

6.    A man whom people can not trust will have ____ friends. ( little,  few,  a few,  a lot)

7.    My younger brother grew very quickly and he was ____ his mother. (more big that, so big than, as big as, too big than)

8.    The mother looked _____ at her naughty child. ( anger,  angry,  angrily,  angered)

9.    It was _____ that we decided to buy it. ( a such beautiful house,  such a beautiful house,  so beautiful house,  so a beautiful house)

10.  ____ these mangoes taste____? ( Do/ sweetly,  Do/ sweet,  Have/ sweetly,  Are/ sweet)

11.  Your plan sounds ____ to me, ( perfect, perfected,  perfectly,  perfection)

12.  This room is _____ small for six of us to live in.( as,  much,  too,  as much)

13.  The younger you are , ___you learn. ( the quicker,  the quicklier,  the more quickly,  the less quickly.

14.  Yesterday was _____ day of the year. ( the cold,  the coldest,  the colder,  coldest)

15.  Do it as _____ as you can. ( good,  well,  better,  very good)

16.  The smaller the room, _____ furniture it needs. ( the fewer,  the more, the smaller,  the less)

17.  Our English lessons are becoming _____ ( more and more difficult,  more difficult and more difficult,  more difficult and difficult,  most difficult)

18.  Her house is twice _____ mine. ( as big as, bigger than,  the biggest,  big)

19.  Is this ______ pen you’ve got? ( the cheap, the cheapest,  cheapest,  cheaper)

20.  My job is boring. I’d like to do something __( interesting,  most interesting,  more interesting,  interestingly)

21.  Tom is the ______ of the 2 brothers . ( older,  oldest,  old,  elder)

22.  You are driving too fast . Can you drive__? ( a bit slowly,   a bit more slowly,  slowly a bit,  slowlier)

23.  He is _____ than I first thought. ( little stupid,  few stupid,  less stupid,  the least stupid)

24.  She is a _____ and______ driver than her brother. ( slower/ more careful,  more slowly/ more carefully,  slower/ careful,  more slower/ more careful

25.  Mercedes is the __ car of all. (the most expensive, the more expensive, expensive, the expensivest)

26.  It’s _____ to learn a foreign language in a country where it is spoken. ( a lot easier,  easier a lot,  a lot easy,  a lot more easy)

27.  Of all the girls she sang _____. (better, good, the best, very well)

28.  Rose is a _____ working student ; she ____ waste a minutes of her time. ( hardly/ hard,  hard/ hard,  hardly/ hardly,  hard/ hardly)

29.  I drive much_____ than I did 2 years ago. ( careful,  carefully, more careful,  more carefully)

30.  He got up _____ miss the first bus. (so earlier as to, so early to, so early as not to, too early to)