MUCH / FAR / EVEN (INTENSIFIERS)
Choose the correct sentence:
a) This exam is very harder than the last one.
b) This exam is much harder than the last one.
c) This exam is more harder than the last one.
Answer: b
Complete:
It’s ______ colder today, but not dramatically.
Answer: a bit / slightly
Complete:
This task is not ______ difficult as I expected.
as
Complete:
It’s getting ______ and ______. (cold)
colder and colder
Correct the sentence:
She is far more taller than her sister.
Answer: far taller
Correct:
This phone is a little more cheaper than that one.
Answer: a little cheaper
Correct:
She is not as smarter as her brother.
Answer: as smart as
Complete:
This exercise is becoming ______ and ______ difficult.
Answer: more and more
Complete:
The situation is ______ worse than we expected, it's a real problem now.
Answer: much / far
Complete:
Their performance was ______ worse than last time - actually, it was about the same.
Answer: no
Complete:
The film was ______ near as good as the book.
Answer: nowhere
Correct:
It’s getting more harder and harder.
harder and harder
Complete:
I thought he was good, but he’s ______ better than I imagined.
Answer: even
Choose:
This version is ______ better than the previous one, but only a little.
a) slightly
b) much
c) even
Answer: a
Complete:
This jacket is ______ as expensive as yours - I paid almost the same.
Answer: almost / nearly
Choose:
Life is becoming ______ expensive.
a) more and more
b) more and more expensive
c) increasingly
Answer: b
Choose the best option:
This year is ______ more difficult than last year.
a) even
b) much
c) both possible
Answer: c
much more difficult = strong difference
even more difficult = surprise/comparison with expectation
Explain the meaning difference:
He is a bit better.
He is much better.
a bit better → small difference
much better → big difference
Rewrite:
My car is much less comfortable than yours.
→ use nothing like as
Answer:
My car is nothing like as comfortable as yours.
Explain the difference:
harder and harder vs more and more difficult
same meaning
structure depends on the adjective type
(hard → harder, difficult → more difficult)