EXERCISE 26–4 Adjectives and adverbs
Select the correct word or phrase in each sentence. Click Save to save your work and return to it. Click Submit to see your score and item-by-item explanations; your activity will be recorded in your instructor's gradebook.
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Few city dwellers have a hard time deciding whether cockroaches or rats are (worse / worst).
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Rats are (more unique threats / more threatening) than other forms of vermin.
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In addition to looking (disgusting / disgustingly), rats have been known to spread diseases.
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Most city rats are Norway rats; they came on ships from Europe, and their numbers grew very (quick / quickly).
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Wild rats cannot find their (favorite / most favorite) food in the city, and they dislike noise.
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City rats, in contrast, have done quite (good / well) at adapting to urban environments.
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Like city people, city rats have learned to live in smaller spaces than their country cousins; in addition, they thrive (beautiful / beautifully) on urban food.
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Rats are among the (destructivest / most destructive) creatures in cities.
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Perhaps the biggest reason people dislike rats is that rats take advantage of humans so (skillful / skillfully).
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When a rat is caught in a trap, few people, including animal lovers, feel (bad / badly).
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