Vocabulary practice for the Cambridge PET exam
If you've tried our exercises to practise comparative and superlative forms and want to see how well you know them, try this Sentence Transformation-style test. All of the answers require a comparative or superlative form.
Revise Comparatives and Superlatives
For each question, complete the second sentence so that it means the
same as the first.
Use no more than three words.
1. He has never scored so highly in a test as he did in this
one.
This ........................................ score he has received
in a test.
2. The shop is not very busy today compared to yesterday.
The shop is not ........................................ it was yesterday.
3. We were told that the show was not very entertaining but
it was.
The show ........................................ than we had been
told.
4. I've never had to wait this long for a bus before.
This ........................................ I have ever had to
wait for a bus.
5. We had the same meal tonight and last night.
Dinner tonight ........................................ as it was
last night.
6. I don't think I have ever had such a bad haircut.
This ........................................ haircut I have ever
had.
Were there any questions above that you got wrong? Is so, learn
these new patterns. The best way to do this is to use them in
sentences that mean something to you. For example, in question
2 we had this pattern:
The shop is not very busy today compared to yesterday.
The shop is not as busy as it was yesterday.
Use these patterns in sentences of your own. For example:
My French is not very good compared to my English.
My French is not as good as my English.