Underline the correct word. The first sentence has been done for you.

1. Last year was the most profitable /the more profitable we have ever had.
2. You know still waters run deep/deeply, but more/ the more/ the most I get to know about their business more/the more/ the most I feel embarrassed.
3. Now she feels more suspicious/suspiciouser/the more suspicious of her business partner than last year and wants to get farther/further information about his affairs.
4. The more/the most/more they hurried the least obvious/the less obvious /less obviously/ the least obviously it was that they would be able to launch the product on time.
5. This is the most riskiest/the most risky/the riskiest project I’ve ever invested in.
6. A new model of a mobile phone manufactured by Samsung costs half less expensive than/so expensive as/as expensive as a new one produced by Apple.
7. It is easier/more easy/the easiest to get a bank overdraft than a loan.
8. Although we rely on moderner/more modern machinery, their plant capacity is twice as good as/twice better than ours.
9. Market research was correct: the new product line was so popular as/more popular as/ as popular as the old one.
10. He really deserves a promotion as he works much harder/much more hard/much more harder than she does, for instance, last month he managed to cope with the most challenging/ the more challenging task of all.
11. No sooner/no soon/sooner/after had he taken up a post when/than/after he suggested considering new ways of generating business.
12. Our Japanese subsidiary gave the worse/the worst/the worsest performance in the group, while European branches improved their KPI the markedliest/ the most markedly.
13. It is perfect fair/perfectly fair/perfectly fairly/perfect fairly that with the new computer system that processes data received from cash registers all orders are generated much fastly/ mush more fast/much faster.
14. The share price fell near/nearly as rapidly as/as rapid as/so rapid as/as rapidlier as it rose.
15. Hard/hardly/no sooner had they encouraged staff to be more active in building up good customer relations when/as/than there was a slow recovery in customer confidence.

Adjective or adverb. Underline the correct word. The first sentence has been done for you.

1. They didn’t need to change trains and went to Paris direct/ directly.
2. Our profits fell slight/slightly in soft drinks sales last year.
3. The sandwich I bought in fast food restaurant nearly/near our office tasted sourly/sour so I threw it away.
4. Our head of department, Nigel, is very level-headed, he remains calmly/calm in any circumstances and never loses control.
5. The financial assistant reported that the company saw a dramatical/ dramatically/dramatic improvement in its share price last month.
6. The partner cut them short/shortly, saying that a relative/ relatively decrease in sales can be explained by a season and that he feels quitely enthusiastically/ quitely enthusiastic/quite enthusiastically/quite enthusiastic about half-year results.
7. It is a high/highly promising business and really looks differently/different to what I’ve dealt with in this sphere.
8. Unlike other national/nationally regulated and financed corporations, ours great/greatly depends on market prices.
9. Interesting enough/interestingly enough, but the results presented in week/weekly report differ significant/significantly from especially/specially/special prepared by outside consultant precise/precisely calculations.
10. The most wide/widely accepted idea is: one wants to move fast/fastly a career ladder, they need to work hard/hardly.

Speaking

Discuss classes of dangerous goods: give examples of goods and think of possible reasons for regulations:

1. explosives

2. gases

3. flammable liquids

4. flammable solids

5. toxic substances

6. radioactive material

7. corrosives

8. miscellaneous dangerous goods

9. oxidizers

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