Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K. Pullum, A STUDENT'S INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH GRAMMAR (Cambridge University Press, 2005)

NOTES ON THE EXERCISES TO CHAPTER 12


1. Re-express the content of the following in a more natural way using comparative or superlative constructions.

Ex The degree of intelligence that Ed has far exceeds that which you think he has.
A Ed is far more intelligent than you think.


2. Underline all the comparative clauses (and nothing else) in the following examples (all from Lewis Carroll's Alice books, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass).

Ex {for GKP}
A model answer here


3. {Model answer given in the book}


4–5. {Don't lend themselves to model answer treatment}


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