Unit 8: Adjectives and Adverbs 1 Find a mistake in each sentence and correct it. 1 Are you interesting in extending the guarantee? 2 Peter has been working very hardly recently. 3 This magazine article is extremely excellent. 4 I thought the meeting went very good. 5 The meeting wasn’t very useful. It was much little useful than last week’s. 6 The presentation was enough long, and so the audience got bored. 7 Using my PC for a long time makes my eyes feel tiring. 8 We give discounts never on these products. 9 Golf isn’t as good for your health than swimming. 10 In my opinion their management team is not enough experienced. 11. You work much harder as I do. 12 Your proposal sounds really interestingly. 13 The negotiation was such tense we had to call a short break. 2 Rewrite the sentences using the verb in brackets. 1 Could you not talk so fast, please? (slowly) Could you ____________________________________________________ 2 Retail banking isn’t as profitable as investment banking. (more) Investment banking _________________________________________________ 3 She’s a very careful worker. (works) She ____________________________________________________ 4 I haven’t seen worse service than this. (ever) This is ____________________________________________________ 5 Do you find opera interesting? (interested) Are ____________________________________________________ 6 The meeting had a positive finish. (finished) The meeting ____________________________________________________ 7 The Chinese market is bigger than the Indian market. (as) The Indian market __________________________________________________ 8 Alan sells the same number of products as Richard. (just as) Alan sells ____________________________________________________ 9 The other members of the team are more experienced than Romy. (least) Romy ____________________________________________________ 3 Fill in the blanks with words from the box. Make any changes to the adjectives necessary to form adverbs. late patient public punctual quarter safe silent 1 When you get there, give me a ring to let me know you’ve arrived ___________. 2 The Economic Review is published ____________ and comes out in March, June, September, and December. 3 Trains in Japan arrive so _____________ that you can set your watch by them. 4 The train to the airport arrived ___________ and as a result I very nearly missed the plane. 5 The new motor is very quiet, and at most speeds it operates almost __________. 6 Before privatization, many nationalized industries were ________________ subsidized by the government. 7 He was not in a hurry, so he waited _______ until the client was ready to see him. 4 Choose a word from box A and one from box B to complete the sentences. A surprisingly badly commercially well totally terribly B qualified quickly designed viable good illegal 1 She has a PhD and an MBA so she’s certainly very ______________. 2 The results at the end of the year were _______________________ and certainly much better than we had thought. 3 The bank decided that the project was not ______________________ so they refused to give them a loan. 4 Insider dealing is ________________ – if they catch you, you could go to prison. 5 The engine on the XR86 was very ____________________ and the car soon gained a reputation for unreliability. 6 He spoke ___________________, so I couldn’t really understand what he was saying. 5 Choose either an adjective or an adverb from the words in italics. 1 Their new offices in the city look very impressive/impressively. 2 It’s a pity that airline food never tastes as good/well as it looks. 3 He reacted calm/calmly when I told him the bad news. 4 The new perfume from Dior smells very expensive/expensively. 5 We stopped ordering from them, because a lot of their products were bad/badly designed. 6 They’ve changed the clocks, so now it gets dark/darkly at about 3.00 in the afternoon. 7 Waiter, could you bring us some more milk – this tastes sour/sourly. 8 Your new secretary seems very competent/competently. 9 Most policy decisions are taken at head office, but day-to-day decisions are taken local/locally. 10 When I spoke to Jeremy, he didn’t sound confident/confidently about meeting this year’s targets.