By the end of this exercise, you can compare your own town with a big city like New York — its size, its traffic and its people — using comparatives and superlatives.
Free Year 8 English practice: explore New York and Boston while practising comparatives and superlatives with self-marking exercises at A2 level.
Read the text about New York and Boston. Choose the correct word for each gap.
The Northeast is the smallest region of the USA, but millions of people live there. New York City is the most famous 1 in the region.
Visitors take the ferry to see the Statue of 2. It was a 3 from France in 1886.
Central Park is bigger than many 4 in Europe. On sunny days it is full of runners, families and street 5.
The subway is faster than a 6, because the streets are often full of traffic.
Boston is quieter than New York. It has narrow streets and one of the oldest 7 in America. For many visitors, the Northeast is the most exciting 8 of the USA.
Short adjectives take -er (cold → colder). Longer adjectives take more (exciting → more exciting). Some are irregular: good → better, bad → worse.
1. New York is than Boston.
2. The subway is than the bus.
3. Central Park is than I expected.
4. Winter in Boston is than winter in Miami.
5. This museum is interesting than the other one.
6. The weather today is than yesterday.
7. A ferry ticket is than a taxi ride.
8. The streets here are than the streets in my town.
Use the superlative when you compare one thing with all the others: the tallest building, the most famous museum.
1. The Empire State Building is one of the buildings in New York.
2. That was the day of our whole trip.
3. Times Square is the place in the city.
4. Which is the museum in Boston?
5. This is the pizza I have ever eaten.
6. January is usually the month of the year here.
7. The subway is the way to travel across New York.
8. It was the holiday of my life.
Compare your town with New York (6–8 sentences). Write about size, traffic, people, shops and free time. Use at least three comparatives and two superlatives.
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