MORFOSINTAXIS INGLESA

UNIT 5. ADJECTIVES. EXERCISES

1. Place the three adjectives in the correct order before the noun.

- book interesting - small - Spanish → _____________________

- picture modern - ugly - rectangular
- opinion old - boring - American
- apple ripe – green - delicious
- suit woollen - large - black
- house beautiful - modern - small
- magazine German - slender - strange
- cap cotton - funny - green
→ _____________________
→ _____________________
→ _____________________
→ _____________________
→ _____________________
→ _____________________
→ _____________________

2. Complete this sentence with an article, a noun and an adjective:

- articles: a / an / (nothing)
- nouns: coat / gloves / beard / eyes
- adjectives: elegant / short / brown / long / little / blue / warm / curly

Peter has _________________________

_________________________
_________________________
_________________________

3. Compare these two cars writing sentences using the adjectives.

Mercedes Mini
(big car) (small car)
$200,000 $10,000

Expensive → __________________________________
Cheap → __________________________________
Powerful → __________________________________
Large → __________________________________
Comfortable → __________________________________
Fast → __________________________________

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4. Fill in the blanks with a comparative or a superlative :

a. Canada is (big) ________than the USA but China is (populous) ________country

in the world.
b. We stayed at (cheap) ________ hotel in the town but my cousin’s campsite was
(cheap) ________ than our hotel.
c. January is generally (bad) ________ than December but February is (cold)
________ month.
d. English is (easy) ________ than German.
e. Chinese is (difficult) ________ language.
f. Heathrow is one of (busy) ________ airports in Europe.
g. My father thinks that the Beatles were (good) ________ than the Rolling Stones,
but in my opinion, U2 is (great) ________ band.

5. Choose the correct answer

- It's better ____ I thought.

a. as
b. then
c. than
d. like
- Brazil is _____ England.
a. biger than
b. bigger as
c. bigger than
d. biger as
- She is _____ in the class
a. the best
b. best
c. better than
d. as good as
- I'm not as successful ___ she is.
a. as
b. like
c. than
d. then
- It was ______ expensive restaurant I've ever been to.
a. more
b. the more
c. most

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 d. the most
- I'd like some ____ information.
a. farther
b. further
c. either could be used here.
- It's ____ art collection in Europe.
a. finer
b. finest
c. the finer
d. the finest
- It was ____ than I was expecting.
a. cheaper
b. cheapest
c. either could be used here.
- This is the ______ kitchen I've ever seen.
a. dirtiest
b. dirtiest
c. either could be used here.
- Which is ____ of the two?
a. more difficult
b. most difficult
c. either could be used here.
- She finished ____ than everyone else.
a. more quickly
b. quicker
c. either could be used here.
- The underground is ____ buses.
a. more expensive
b. most expensive
c. the most expensive
d. more expensive than
- The plane would be _____ than the coach.
a. more quickly
b. quicker
c. Either could be used here.
- It was the ____ test I have ever done.
a. the most hard
b. the hardest

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 c. either could be used here.
- There were ____ people at the game than expected.
a. most
b. more
c. many
- The _____ difficult thing was communication.
a. More
b. Most
c. it depends on how many things there were.

6. Adjectives -ED or -ING Exercise

1. He's such a monotonous speaker. I was ________________ stiff. (bored/boring)

2. Most sequels are ________________. (disappointed/disappointing)
3. I had such a ________________ day I went straight to bed. (tired/tiring)
4. Everyone's very ________________ about the news. (excited/exciting)
5. That lamp produces a very ________________ effect. (pleased/pleasing)
6. The whole school was ______________ by the tragic event. (saddened/saddening)
7. I don't like watching ________________ films on my own. (depressed/depressing)
8. I was ________________ when she told me she'd got divorced. (amazed/amazing)
9. He's such a ______________ guy. He only ever talks about himself. (bored/boring)
10. I'm very ________________ in films and theatre. (interested/interesting)
11. No one knew what would happen next. We were all ________________.
(intrigued/intriguing)
12. It was a very ________________ situation. (interested/interesting)
13. There's been some very ________________ news. (surprised/surprising)
14. His mother was ________________ by what she found under his bed.
(disgusted/disgusting)
15. Their hamburgers are ________________. (disgusted/disgusting)
16. Dad always arrives home from work thoroughly ________________.
(exhausted/exhausting)
17. He's always showing off. It's really ________________. (annoyed/annoying)
18. I think Alex is one of the most ________________ people I've ever met. He can't
keep still for a second. (annoyed/annoying)
19. I walked into this restaurant and there was Andy with a strange woman. He
seemed really ________________. (embarrassed / embarrassing)
20. She kept talking about her boyfriend problems all night. It was rather
________________. (embarrassed/embarrassing)

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