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Comparative & Superlative form
Exercise 1 – Complete the following text with the adjectives between brackets in the correct comparative or superlative forms.
University of Birmingham
Campus attractions
Shakespeare Institute
The Shakespeare Institute offers superb academic resources on the English Renaissance and it includes one of (a) ______________ (fine) Shakespeare libraries in the world.
Winterbourne Botanic Garden
The Winterbourne Botanic Garden has plants from around the world. Its dramatic displays throughout the seasons are one of (b) _____________ (popular) attractions among students and visitors. Many students find looking at all those beautiful plants and flowers (c) _______________ (entertaining) any other leisure activity!
Lapworth Museum of Geology
The Lapworth Museum of Geology is one of (d) _______________ (old) specialist geological museums in the UK with over 250, specimens of rocks, fossils and minerals.
Ironbridge Gorge
The Ironbridge Institute was founded as a partnership between the University of Birmingham and the Ironbridge Gorge Museums Trust and provides (e) _______________ (good) postgraduate courses in Heritage Management and Industrial Archaeology.
Library special collections
The University’s own library has a number of special collections. Some of the books are 500 years old, and one of them is even (f) _______________ (old).
Exercise 2 – University quiz. Complete it and answer it.
a. Which university is _______________________ (old)? UNLU or UM?
______________________________________________________.
b. Which is _____________________ (big) university in Buenos Aires?
______________________________________________________.
c. Which university is ________________ (modern)? UNLU or UNLaM?
______________________________________________________.
d. What is _________________________ (good) American university?
______________________________________________________.
e. Where are universities _________________ (cheap)? In Argentina
or in the USA? ______________________________________________________.
f. Where is __________________________ (old) university in Europe?
Exercise 3 – Choose the most suitable form of the adjective: comparative or superlative.
ANSWER :
Exercise 1
a. The finest b. The most popular c. More entertaining than d. The oldest e. The best f. older
Exercise 2
a. older? UM is older than UNLU b. the biggest…? UBA is the biggest university in Buenos Aires. c. More modern? UNLaM is more modern than UNLU. d. The best…? Yale is the best American university. e. Cheaper? In Argentina, universities are cheaper. f. The oldest…? The oldest university in Europe is in Italy.
Exercise 3
- oldest
- most prominent
- larger
- busier
- more industrial
- the most popular
- more important
- longer
- quicker
- shorter
