Write the missing degrees of comparison.
| 1.
| fast
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| the fastest
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| far
| farther
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| older
| the oldest
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| bigger
| the biggest
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| good-looking
| better-looking
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| -
| busier
| the busiest
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Complete the sentences with the comparative form of the adjectives in brackets.
Example: Bred is slimmer than Bob.
a) The CN Tower is _____ than the Empire State Building. (tall) 
b) A motorcycle is _____ than a bicycle. (expensive)
c) Train goes _____ than bus. (fast)
d) A bird can travel _____than a horse. (far)
e) Roses smell _____ than onions. (nice)
f) A mobile phone is _____ than an ordinary telephone. (small)
g) A Hummer is _____ than an Oka. (big)
h)An orange is _____ than a lemon. (sweet)
In groups of four complete the sentences with the correct superlative of the adjectives from the box.
Example: The driest place on Earth is the Atacama Desert in Chile. It gets no rain at all.
| tall crowded cold wet old hot small busy large new
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a) The _____ lake is the Caspian Sea. It's about 371,000km².
b) The _____ place is Dallol, Ethiopia. Its average temperature is about 34.5 degrees Celsius.
c) Polus Nedostupnosti, Antartctica, is the _____ place with an average temperature of minus 58 degrees Celsius.
d) People first saw 'Surprise Rock Island' on the 14th of April, 1988, so it is called the world's _____ island. It is in Sabah, Malaysia.
e) The _____ bridge is over the Meles River in Izmir, Turkey. People built this bridge in 850 B.C.
f) The Howrah Bridge in Calcutta, India is the _____ bridge. Every day, 57,000 vehicles and hundreds of thousands of people cross it.
g) The _____ place is probably Chirapunji, India. It gets 1,187 centimeters of rain every year.
h) In Bangladesh, there are about 768 people to every km². It is the _____ country in the world.
i) The _____ country is Vatican City. It is only about 44 hectares.
j) Today, the Sears Tower in Chicago is the _____ building in the world. It has 110 storeys and is 443 meters high.
Insert the appropriate degree of comparison of the adjective in brackets.
Example: The apple is _____ than the orange. (small) - The apple is smaller than the orange.
a) The orange is _____ than the apple. (big)
 b) The yellow ball is _____ than the blue one. (small)
c) The red ball is _____ than the green one. (big)
d) The blue ball is the _____ of all. (big)
e) The green ball is the _____ of all. (small)
f) The girl on the right is _____ than the one on the left. (short)
g) The girl on the left is _____ than the one on the right. (tall)
 
h) The flower on the left is _______ than the one on the right. (beautiful)
i) Rome is _____ from Venice than from Florence. (far)
j) Bari is ____ to Brindisi than to Trento. (close)
k) The distance from Brindisi to Aosta is the _____. (far)
l) The distance from Potenza to Bari is the _____ (short)
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