the: Chilly runs fastest in emergencies.

Note that it is impossible to have comparatives or superlatives of certain adverbs, especially those of time (e.g. daily, yesterday, then), place (e.g. there, up, down), and degree (e.g. very, just, too).

EXERCISE 5

Put the adverb in the correct form and guess who it is: Kudjo, Chilly, Cuba, Luna, Kit or the lynx

1 This animal has read by far /many/ books.

2 This animal moves /gracefully/ of all the friends.

3 This animal gets into trouble /often/.

4 This animal acts /bravely/ when Kudjo is nowhere nearby.

5 This animal takes care of Kit /affectionately/ of all the dogs.

6 This animal speaks /little/ of all the friends.

7 This animal behaves /oddly/.

8 This animal takes decisions by far /resourcefully/ of all the dogs.

9 This animal thinks /quickly/ when there is no Kudjo nearby.

10 This animal behaves by far /courageously/.

EXERCISE 6

Put the adverb in brackets in comparative or superlative degree and explain what the proverbs mean:

1 Action speaks (loud) than words.

2 If you buy (cheaply), you pay (dearly).

3 If you want to go (quickly), go alone. If you want to go (far), go together.

4 (little) said, (soon) mended.

5 The (hard) you work, the luckier you get.

6 He laughs (well) who laughs (late).

7 Honey catches (many) flies than vinegar.

8 The (much) things change, the (much) they stay the same.

9 Absence makes the heart grow (fond).

10 If you cannot live (long), live (deep).

TOO AND ENOUGH

The word too implies excess – more of a certain quality than necessary. Too comes before an adjective or an adverb in a sentence: too + adjective/adverb + to infinitive

The dogs thought they’d arrived too late to help Kudjo.

The word enough means sufficient. Enough comes after an adjective or adverb but before a noun.

adjective/adverb + enough} + to-infinitive

enough + noun

This place was big enough to let the dogs get together.

There was enough room for everyone.

EXERCISE 7

Choose the correct adjective/adverb for each sentence and add too or enough either before or after the word to complete the sentence: strong, brave, exhausted, long, spacious, hard, shocked, agitated, sophisticated, strong and sharp

1 The place where the friends found themselves was ***** to get together and discuss further steps.

2 Kit tried to say something about the strange noise he had heard, but the dogs were ***** to listen to him.

3 At first, the friends tried to open the metal door all together, but it was ***** for them to open it.

4 The door was solid as a rock and the dogs were not ***** to bash it open.

5 The only possible way to get out was to unlock it. But the padlock was ***** for the dogs to slip it.

6 Having tried for several hours to open the door, the dogs were ***** to do anything and just fell asleep.

7 Everybody was sleeping like a log when Kit woke up and tried to undo the lock on his own. His claws were ***** to get inside the lock.

8 The kitten’s claws turned out to be ***** to slinky the lock.

9 When everybody woke up, they were ***** to say anything. The door was wide open. There was no Kit anywhere.

10 He was ***** to go further alone.

QUITE – FAIRLY – RATHER – PRETTY

Quite (= fairly, to some degree) is used in favourable comments: Kit is quite clever for his age.

Quite also means completely. It is used with adverbs, verbs and certain adjectives such as: alone, amazing, brilliant, certain, dead, dreadful, different, exhausted, extraordinary, false, good, horrible, impossible, perfect, ridiculous, right, sure, true, useless, etc.

The dogs were quite exhausted. (completely exhausted).

Rather is used in unfavourable comments: It was a rather tough day. It is also used in favourable comments when it means “to an unusual degree’: The end of the trip was rather successful. (It was more successful than the dogs expected.)

Rather is also used with comparative degree: The dogs were rather more relaxed after sleep.

Fairly and pretty are synonymous with quite and rather.

Quite is used before a/an.: Kit is quite a smart kitten.

Rather is used before or after a/an: It was a rather tough experience. It was rather a tough experience.

Fairly and pretty are used after a: The lynx seemed to be a fairly/pretty good friend.

EXERCISE 8

Underline the correct item (sometimes both options are possible):

1 Luna was rather/quite angry with Kit because he had run away quite/pretty alone again.

2 Moreover, Luna is quite/rather more bad-tempered in the mornings.

3 While all the dogs were quite/rather happy with the opportunity of going further, Luna was rather/fairly gloomy worrying about her pet.

4 Chilly was quite/fairly certain that everything would be fine with Kit, as usual.

5 He tried to calm Luna down by saying that Kit is quite a/a quite clever kitten, who knows quite/rather perfectly what to do in emergencies.

6 Finally, the friends managed rather/pretty hard to persuade Luna to continue going and got through the door.

7 The door was rather/a rather small and the lynx had to duck to get through it.

8 Surprisingly, the corridor turned out to be rather/fairly wide and high, so the friends could go quite/rather comfortably.

9 The only problem was that the corridor was rather/quite dark, which made it quite/pretty impossible to go fast.

10 After a couple of hours the dogs were quite/pretty sure that they had been going around the mountain all the time.

EXERCISE 9

Fill the gaps in the story with missing words:

At the point the dogs realised they had ***** going round in a circle, they bumped into Kit, who was ***** and speaking to somebody excitedly. The dogs could ***** believe their ears and eyes – there was ***** lying in a kind of wooden cage. He looked ***** but happy at the same time. Of course, everybody was flurried and couldn’t help ***** interrupting each other.

After calming down the friends tried ***** to break the cage and at this moment Kudjo suddenly saw the ***** hiding cowardly behind the dogs. Never before had the friends ***** Kudjo so furious! He roared absolutely ***** at the lynx and made such an incredibly ***** effort to attack her that broke the *****. The lynx was rather ***** than the dogs, who seemed deeply ***** by Kudjo’s behaviour, so she was able to make a quick get-away. After ***** the cage Kudjo was quite exhausted to follow her and lay down ***** to his friends and closed his eyes. He looked ***** worn-out. Luna immediately took out a bottle with ***** and poured it right into his *****. Everybody could hardly breathe with ***** anxiety. Kudjo opened his eyes very ***** and said that a piece of meat would make a miracle as well. After such words the friends sighed with ***** relief and gave him a ***** hug.

EXERCISE 10

Find and correct 15 mistakes in the sentences:

1 The story that Kudjo told his friends sounded absolutely unbelievably.

2 Everything started that night when last Chilly saw Kudjo following the blue glowing ball into the middle of nowhere.

3 Actually, at that time Kudjo hadn’t got very far, not farer than a kilometre from the car until he tripped over something and fell down into a very huge pit.

4 Having tried quiet hard to get out of the trap, Kudjo started barking as loud as he could, but nobody seemed to hear him.

5 Feeling very helpless, Kudjo lay down to sleep on a very enormous pile of leaves, which, actually, had helped cushion his fall.

6 The morning came with somebody’s loudly purring above. He looked up and saw a pretty huge wild cat watching him close.

7 The lynx looked nicely and friendly and helped him get out of the trap.

8 She told him the story about a crazy scientist and promised to take him to his underground secret laboratory.

9 Before going there, she suggested having breakfast in her cave near and Kudjo agreed wholehearted to follow her.

10 In the cave while having a hearty breakfast, openly Kudjo told her everything about the curse attached to Luna’s family, the ghost of Luna’s great-great-great-great-great grandmother and his plan to break that curse.

EXERCISE 11

Choose the correct option:

1 Leaving the cave, the lynx wanted Kudjo to follow her *****, but he stopped to look around, feeling something *****.

a immediate / suspicious

b immediately / suspicious

c immediately / suspiciously

2 He couldn’t help feeling *****.

a quitely strange

b quite strange

c quite strangely

3 Kudjo had ***** feeling that he knew this place very well.

a quite a fun

b a quite funny

c quite a funny

4 He kept looking around *****, but couldn’t understand what the place was.

a very carefully

b rather carefully

c very careful

5 Finally, he realised it was the smell that made him feel *****.

a rather weird

b very weird

c rather weirdly

6 Everything around smelt ***** as if he were in his own garden with his friends.

a extremely nicely and pleasantly

b absolutely nice and pleasant

c extremely nice and pleasant

7 ***** he smelt everything, ***** he wanted to be with his friends.

a Longer / more desperately

b The longer / the more desperate

c The longer / the more desperately

8 When Kudjo told the lynx about his feelings, she said she was ***** his friends must have been caught by the insane scientist.

a quite certainly

b very certain

c quite certain

9 After such words Kudjo became ***** to find that lab.

a far more determinedly

b far more determined

c by far more determined

10 He thought ***** about himself at that moment.

a most little

b leastest

c least

EXERCISE 12

Translate the story:

Теперь уже Куджо торопил рысь. Ему очень хотелось как можно быстрее попасть в эту самую лабораторию и убедиться, что ни одни из его друзей не попал туда. Куджо шел за рысью и думал откуда появляются безумцы, готовые ставить самые ужасные опыты на животных и почему их никто не останавливает. Он размышлял о том, как сразу после того, как он уничтожит лабораторию и выпустит животных на свободу, он еще раз попытается найти приведение пра-пра-пра-пра-пра-пра бабушки Луны, чтобы отдать ей недостающий кусочек пазла. Он был почти уверен, что это положит конец семейному проклятию и все опять будут жить беззаботно и весело. Стоп! А где же кусочек пазла? Куджо был абсолютно уверен, что он был все время с ним. Он выглядел настолько потрясенным и расстроенным, что рысь тоже разволновалась. Она постаралась успокоить Куджо, уверяя его, что он скорее всего оставил этот кусочек в пещере или в яме и они непременно его найдут, сразу же после разгрома лаборатории. Рысь звучала убедительно и Куджо немного успокоился. Тем более, что они уже подошли к горе, под которой скрывалась лаборатория. Гора выглядела не очень естественно, казалось даже, что она сделана из какого-то сплава камня с металлом. Они вползли через какой-то ход, который привел их в небольшую комнату с огромной клеткой….

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