#GRAMMAR 8.7 PRACTICE (due date: Friday, April 21)

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30 questions

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PART 1 of 2

DIRECTIONS:
1. Identify any double or incomplete comparisons. (15 points)
*You may only put EXACTLY two or three words in each box for your answer.
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The moon is less brighter than the sun.

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The sun is the most brightest object in our solar system.

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It even reflects off Pluto, which is farther away than any planet.

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Pluto is also smaller than any planet.

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Jupiter is the most largest planet.

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Earth is the most largest of all the rocky inner planets.

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The inner planets are less gassier than the outer planets, which are mostly gas.

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Since all the planets were formed at about the same time, it is hard to say which ones are more older than the others.

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Venus has a thick atmosphere that is more poisonous than Earth.

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On the other hand, Mars has a more thinner atmosphere than Earth’s atmosphere.

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The most loveliest sights in the solar system are the ring systems around some of the planets.

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Of all the planets, Saturn has the most extensivest system of rings.

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Because they are so large, Saturn’s rings reflect more sunlight and are more shinier than the rings of Jupiter.

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Our moon looks bright to us because it is much more closer to Earth than the stars.

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Saturn has the most moons of any planet.

PART 2 of 2

DIRECTIONS:
1. TEN of the sentences are incorrect. Write the correct form of each double or incomplete
comparison in the box. (10 points)
*The comparison has been underlined for you.

2. FIVE of the sentences are correct. Write none in the box for those sentences. (5 points)
*The comparison has been underlined for you.
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The sun is smaller and less hotter than many other stars.

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The sun is, of course, the most closest to Earth of all stars.

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Even though the star Proxima Centauri is 4.3 light years away from our sun, it is still closer than any star.

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Astronomers have learned how to tell which stars are more farther away than other stars.

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If several stars have the same magnitude, or true brightness, the star that is the most faintest is the farthest away.

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The most brightest of all stars are supernovas.

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These are huge stars that explode at the end of their lives, and shine brighter than anything else around them for many months.

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After a supernova explodes, the remaining matter falls inward to become the most densest of all stars, a neutron star.

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Even though a neutron star is small, its dense makeup makes it heavier than any other star.

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Some supernovas collapse inward to form a black hole, where the gravity is stronger than that of other stars.

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The sun can never be a supernova, because such a star must be much more massive than the mass of our sun.

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The sun will expand and become a red giant eventually, and its surface temperature will become more lower than its temperature at present.

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As the sun expands, in several billion years, the surface of Earth will become the most hottest it has ever been.

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Star color is one way astronomers can tell which stars are the hottest and the most coolest.

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Yellow stars, like our sun, are cooler than stars that are white or blue-white.