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The key answer of exercise 4

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 2.2 - It's a wiki wiki world for the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book with authors JJ Wilson with Antonia Clare from Pearson Education

Question

Read the rules and examples in the Active grammar box. Then write the phrases from exercise 3 in the table.

Answer

  1. (it's) miles easier; (it's) far easier; (it's) nowhere near as ... as; (it's) nothing like as good as; it's definitely not as ... as; it's considerably + comparative (formal); (it's) much + superlative
  2. (it's) not quite as ... as ..; it's marginally + comparative (formal); (it's) much the same
  3. the less we ..., the less we ..; the more we ..., the more we ...