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Use a wider range of comparative structures, equality patterns and superlatives with experience expressions.
Overview
Use a wider range of comparative structures, equality patterns and superlatives with experience expressions.
Form and rules
Use comparative + than for differences and as + adjective/adverb + as for equality.
Use not as/so ... as for inequality: This route isn't as fast as the highway.
Use much/a lot/far to strengthen comparatives and a bit/a little/slightly to soften them.
Use one of the + superlative + plural noun: one of the best restaurants.
Present perfect commonly follows superlatives about life experience: the best film I've ever seen.
A closer look
Use one of the + superlative + plural noun: one of the best restaurants.
Present perfect commonly follows superlatives about life experience: the best film I've ever seen.
Examples
This model is much cheaper than that one.
The second test wasn't as difficult as the first.
It's one of the busiest airports in Europe.
That was the funniest speech I've ever heard.
She's slightly taller than her sister.
Common mistakes
Much can strengthen a comparative; very normally does not modify comparatives.
Equality/inequality uses as + adjective + as.
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The test combines multiple choice, gap completion, error correction, and sentence building so students have to recognise and produce the grammar, not simply reread the rule.