Practice #1 Comparative Adjectives
Use the following adjectives to complete the sentences below. Use each word only once.
| beautiful | big | cold | dangerous | dark |
| entertaining | hot | intelligent | large | light |
| long | old | pretty | rich | short |
| small | strong | tall | ugly | weak |
1. An elephant is __bigger than___ a mouse.
2. Montreal is ______________ New York.
3. The Nile River is ___________ the Hudson River.
4. A Cadillac is ___________ than a Hyundai.
5. An apple tree is ________ in the spring ______ in the winter.
6. A duck is ___________ a swan.
7. Hercules was ___________ any other men.
8. American coffee is ___________ Turkish coffee.
9. Bogotá is usually ___________ London.
10. Anchorage, Alaska, is usually __________ Rome.
11. My room is _______ at night _______ during the day.
12. A lion is a _______ color ________ a monkey.
13. A giraffe is ____________ a lion.
14. The days are _________ in the winter ______ in the summer.
15. Most people think that horses are _________________ chickens.
16. Some people find comedies ___________________ dramas.
17. Bill Gates is ____________ most people.
18. I think that a summer sunset is _________________ a winter sunset.
19. SCUBA diving is ______________ playing baseball.
20. My father is ____________ my brother.
(c) David Tillyer 1998