Page 41 the easiest choice this is easier the tallest girl no one is taller the brightest lamp a brighter lamp the loudest horn mine is louder the biggest squash this is bigger the longest toe four are smaller the oldest son an older girl the busiest clerk a busier day the largest ball a larger cube the cleanest room a cleaner one the finest cloth mine is finer his newest clothes a newer hat the driest dirt drier sand	Page 42 the shortest time a shorter stick the neatest paper a neater version shortest speech shorter answer the darkest sky a darker cloud the sharpest point a sharper edge the fattest player a fatter coach --------------------- COMMONLY CONFUSED ADJECTIVES ADVERBS & PREPOSITIONS real butter very tasty real diamonds very shiny almost everyone most people almost done most had finished
Page 43 surely believed felt sure surely understood was not sure PREDICATE ADJECTIVES WITH LINKING VERBS He feels good He plays well Sue appears confident She drives confidently Ralph looks very serious He talks seriously looks bad does badly smells rotten behaved rottenly feels soft speaks softly sounds awful awful noise	Page 44 tastes sour smiles sourly seemed easy won easily are busy busily working looks correct spoke correctly become better perform well smells wonderful cooks wonderfully AVOIDING DOUBLE NEGATIVES Is no one coming back? Isn't anyone coming back? will hardly go won't go at all Scarcely anyone cares anymore Nobody cares these days
Page 45 Never saw such clothes haven't ever seen them never heard any stories Don't say anything Say nothing Nobody takes anything Take nothing with you Not any of them None of them could go Aren't you ever coming over? Are you never going back? There aren't any chocolates	Page 46 never flies anywhere flies nowhere can't see anymore AVOIDING "KIND" ERRORS What kind of job What kinds of jobs That kind of car Those kinds of cars This kind of plant These kinds of plants
Page 47 AVOIDING ERRORS WITH PREPOSITIONS stand beside me none besides you stay in go into between two among several ------------- CONJUNCTIONS & PREPOSITIONS unless I go all except me neither you nor I know for neither you nor me either you or I go for either you or me as you said How like him! do as instructed I'm not like any other acts as if he knows me this photo looks like her