11.9. Adjectives and Adverbs

11.9.1. Choose the correct form by underlining the right element

1. This furniture design is moderner/more modern these days.

2. Our company can't help you any farther/further.

3. Jackie is Sarah's older/elder sister.

4. Modern trains travel very fast/fastly.

5. This food smells awful/awfully.

6. This brand is little/a little less expensive but equally good.

7. May the good/best person win!

8. I have never seen such/so a funny film before.

9. These students are really excellent at/in test taking.

10. Many kids are keen on/for watching cartoons.

11. A boss must be confident in/of oneself.

12. Never has the teacher been so angry by/with her pupils.

13. Isn't that a nice little/little nice dacha!

14. To start the election campaign was a large/big decision.

15. We have a small/little business in Australia.

11.9.2. Re-write the sentences by using the given verbs or prepositions, turning them into phrasal verbs and leaving the meaning intact. Do not change the word given. E.g. The apartments in the suburbs are cheaper than in the centre. Cost. The apartments in the suburbs cost less than in the centre.

Jill is not as good at maths as at humanities. Do. The road was getting harder as they walked. And. Marjorie was trying as hard as she could to pass unnoticed. Do. We all thought the exam would be more difficult. As. This is the most stupid dog I have ever met. A (indefinite article). When you walk a lot, you get healthier. The (definite article). Bill said he could not pay bigger money. Biggest. You and your brother are equally innocent. Just. Could you do better than that? Best. Both of the computers were out of order. Well. Joe's manner of dressing up surprises me. At. After our house repairs we all feel so very tired. From.

11.9.3. Read the text and tick off correct lines with . Write down unnecessary elements and/or corrections made in each line in the space provided. The beginning has been done for you.

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Scientists say a tiny new mini-telescope can fast go down the throat and make a cut in the stomach wall to reach some organ that doctors want to explore. An ordinary procedure is to make a large cut through the skin. Surgeons have also developed safest methods such as key hole surgery that requires a most smaller cut. In the newest technique of a flexible, mini-telescope is inserting into the inside of the body through the throat. The tiniest instrument measures as much as 2mm in diameter. Doctors believe it may be possibly to get to such organs such as the liver, the stomach and others. Doctors believe this method will allow patients to heal quick after surgery. This technique is more safer because doctors don't have to cut on the skin. Thus, recovery times should be reduced. Old fashioned methods of treatment do not surrender. Some surgical experts are excited about the safe of the new technique. They say it's not safe sufficient. One of the problems is that inside the body there are fairly dangerous bacteria. A much better way, they say, is through your skin that can be effectively cleaned of infection. In contrast, authors of the new technology insist that it is quiet safe and is even safer then traditional techniques. They are even prepared to make some farther steps in their research.

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11.9.4. Fill in the gaps in the text by making correct choices

Edgar Allan Poe is most (…1…) for his stories and poems of strangeness, mystery, and terror. He wrote about people buried while still (…2…). He wrote about insanity and death. Critics say he wrote (…3…) horror stories. Poe also wrote detective stories. These were (…4…) about crimes, such as murder. The (…5…) and detective stories Poe created remain (…6…) popular. Edgar Allan Poe's stories are (…7…) easy to read. His language is difficult to understand today. And (…8…) of his writing describes very (…9…) situations and events. In one of the stories story a (…10…) disease has killed half the population of a country. The ruler of the country shuts his castle (…11…) the disease. He and his wealthy friends are inside. They (…12…) the time by having parties. They believe the disease will not find them but it (…13…). As a young man, Edgar began working (…14…) a writer and editor for monthly magazines. He became a (…15…) editor. Yet he was not (…16…) or well-known and his life was difficult. He was poor and suffered (…17…) depression. In order to (…18…) his fears, the writer drank alcohol. There is no (…19…) that Poe experienced emotional problems in his life. Poe's spirit was (…20…). Poe's stories were often about his own (…21…) nature and sufferings. Each person in each story showed a (…22…) side of the writer (…23…). Some critics say he was one of America's best (…24…). (…25…), their opponents disagree.

1. A/ glorious B/ famous C/ hailed D/ hallowed

2. A/ alive B/ living C/ live D/ life

3. A/ perfectly B/ perfecting C/ perfective D/ perfect

4. A/ mysterious B/ mysteriously C/ mysteries D/ masteries

5. A/ horror B/ horrors C/ horrible D/ horrendous

6. A/ rarely B/ extremity C/ extremely D/ often

7. A/ really B/ very C/ too D/ not

8. A/ many B/ more C/ most D/ the most

9. A/ unpleasant B/ unpleasantly C/ pleasant D/ pleasing

10. A/ terrific B/ terrible C/ terrifying D/ trouble

11. A/ to B/ for C/ against D/ from

12. A/ run B/ pass C/ fly D/ waste

13. A/ does B/ finds C/ found D/ has found

14. A/ like B/ how C/ as D/ for

15. A/ lucky B/ succeeding C/ achieving D/ successful

16. A/ well paying B/ well-paid C/ well paid D/ well-paying

17. A/ of B/ from C/ for D/ out of

18. A/ escape B/ avoid C/ prevent D/ increase

19. A/ way B/ problem C/ question D/ reason

20. A/ tearing B/ turning C/ warn D/ torn

21. A/ double B/ divided C/ divisive D/ decisive

22. A/ different B/ various C/ prominent D/ remarkable

23. A/ himself B/oneself C/ one's own D/ his own

24. A/ writer B/ author C/ writers D/ story-teller

25. A/ Obviously B/ Conversely C/ Decisively D/ Decidedly

11.9.5. Complete the text by closing gaps with only one word (e.g. "more beautiful" is taken as one word)

The (…1…) fish has been described for the first time by scientists. This fish called "infant-fish" is (…2…) about 7 mm long. The (…3…) comes from its babyish features. It (…4…) around Australia and has snatched the title of "the smallest fish" (…5…) the 1 cm-long dwarf fish. The infant-fish is no (…6…) than the width of a pencil. The first specimen of the tiny creature was collected way (…7…) in 1979 but the creature has not been properly (…8…) for years. This discovery is the (…9…) in the record of biological findings of (…10…) science. At first nobody (…11…) that they were looking (…12…) the microscope at the world's smallest fish. The (…13…) are slightly bigger than males. The tiny size of the fish is (…14…) by its extremely short life (…15…), which is thought to be a (…16…) two months. The generation turnover is one of the (…17…) known to science. These animals experience (…18…) generations a year. This fish live in a habitat that could be (…19…) by global warming or human development, but they may have the (…20…) to evolve and change as (…21…) as their environment changes. This discovery is yet another (…22…) that we need a (…23…) picture of animal life on earth.