ENG/P/5: ADJECTIVES

Use the correct degree of the adjectives given in brackets.

1. This is…………….than that. (good)
2. Is she ……………than yesterday. (ill)
3. She is the ………………lady in the family. (beautiful)
4. What is the ……………..news about the safari. (late)
5. Is your father………….today.(well)
6. Our home is ………….than yours. (far)
7. I am …………concerned in this matter. (little)
8. Which is the……….. building in Nairobi. (tall)
9. He is the ……..boy in our class. (handsome)
10. Yesterday was the………. day of the week. (hot)

Join these given sentences using “…as…as….”

1. A teacher is important. A doctor is important.
2. This car chair is comfortable. That car chair is comfortable.
3. Pastor Ssenyonga is famous. Pastor Kayanjja is famous.
4. Thomas is weak. Mark is weak.

Join these given sentences using “…as…as….”

1. A teacher is important. A doctor is important.
2. This car chair is comfortable. That car chair is comfortable.
3. Pastor Ssenyonga is famous. Pastor Kayanjja is famous.
4. Thomas is weak. Mark is weak.

Rewrite the following sentences using: “ The…..the…..”

1. If you come early, you will be busy.
2. As you stood very far, you became small.
3. I am clever and I will pass P.L.E very well.
4. That man becomes very weak as he grows old.
5. However much the teacher talked, I didn’t understand.

Rewrite these sentences beginning: “ Of ……..”

1. I beat all the children at home in happiness.
2. All the pupils are clever but Kayizza beats them.
3. The ostrich beats all the birds in speed.
4. The giraffe beats all the animals in height.
5. Our sisters are old but Babirye beats them in age.

Rewrite the following sentences, changing the adjectives into phrasal modifiers

1. The man with a broad chest collapsed
2. A triangle is a figure with three sides
3. My aunt built a bungalow with four rooms
4. A kid with three legs was born yesterday
5. The delegation consisted of six men. (Begin: it was….)
6. Mr. Otai is a handsome man. He has a bald head
7. Teaching is an occupation which consumes a lot of time
8. We have lost the machinery for cutting grass
9. It is easy to find a young fellow with bad manners now days
10. Can you get me a ruler measuring thirty centimeters?