1He stayed here for ............... days.
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Use "a few" to mean a small number of days.
2He is taller than ............... of his four brothers.
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Use "all" when referring to more than two brothers.
3Hindi is ............... difficult than Chinese.
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Use "less" before an adjective to make this negative comparison.
4Sam is ............... than Mary.
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Use "older" in comparisons with "than".
5There aren’t ............... people who can afford to buy a yacht.
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Use "many" with the plural countable noun "people".
6............... money was wasted on the project.
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Use "Much" with the uncountable noun "money".
7This is ............... book on World War II.
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Use "the best" as the superlative form before the noun.
8A donkey is ............... than a horse.
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Use "more useful" as the comparative form of "useful".
9I prefer tea ............... coffee.
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Use "to" after "prefer" when comparing two things.
10He is ............... of the two.
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Use "the cleverer" for this structure comparing two people.
11We have never seen ............... a good boy.
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Use "such" before "a" plus an adjective and a singular noun.
12The children performed really ...............
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Use "well" as the adverb describing the verb "performed".
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- He stayed here for a few days.
- He is taller than all of his four brothers.
- Hindi is less difficult than Chinese.
- Sam is older than Mary.
- There aren’t many people who can afford to buy a yacht.
- Much money was wasted on the project.
- This is the best book on World War II.
- A donkey is more useful than a horse.
- I prefer tea to coffee.
- He is the cleverer of the two.
- We have never seen such a good boy.
- The children performed really well.