Corrigé comparatif anglais : exercices de première – PDF gratuit à télécharger et imprimer

1. worse
2. the worst
3. better (well → better)
4. the best
5. the most expensive
6. less dangerous
7. less (little → less, avec un indénombrable)
8. the farthest (ou the furthest) : distance physique

1. further (sens abstrait : supplémentaire)
2. elder (membre de la famille, devant le nom)
3. older (avec than, elder est impossible)
4. farther (distance ; further est aussi accepté)
5. further (until further notice : jusqu’à nouvel ordre)
6. eldest (dans une famille)

1. twice as much CO2 as (16 = 2 × 8)
2. half as much CO2 per person as (4 = 8 ÷ 2)
3. four times as much CO2 per person as (16 = 4 × 4)
4. three times as much CO2 per person as (12 = 3 × 4)
5. the least polluting (Sudara : 4 tonnes)
6. the most polluting

1. There were twice as many protesters this week as last week.
2. A plane uses three times as much fuel as a train.
3. My flat is half as big as yours.
4. His boss earns three times as much as he does.
5. Wind power produced twice as much in 2025 as in 2015.
6. This book is three times as long as that one.

Much pour un indénombrable (fuel, money), many pour un dénombrable pluriel (protesters).

1. The more we travel, the more we pollute.
2. The bigger the city grows, the worse the traffic gets.
3. The more you practise, the better you speak.
4. The higher the temperature rises, the faster the ice melts.
5. The cheaper a product is, the more people buy it.
6. The longer the debate lasted, the angrier the candidates became.

1. little (peu d’espoir : vision négative)
2. a few (quelques minutes : c’est suffisant)
3. few
4. a little
5. a few
6. little
7. Few (unfortunately signale la vision négative)
8. a little (enough : c’est suffisant)

1. Both
2. either (either … or)
3. Neither
4. both
5. Neither (neither … nor)
6. Either (l’un ou l’autre convient)

1. every (every two years : fréquence)
2. each (each of + petit groupe ; every of est impossible)
3. Every (tous sans exception)
4. every
5. Each (une pièce n’a que deux faces : on les prend une par une)
6. every (almost every est possible, almost each ne l’est pas)

1. a ten-year-old boy
2. a three-day strike
3. a well-known artist
4. an environmentally friendly car (ou eco-friendly, et dans ce cas an devient a)
5. a record-breaking heatwave
6. an open-minded teacher
7. a five-kilometre walk
8. a badly-paid job (ou badly paid)

Dans tous les cas, le nom reste au singulier : year, day, kilometre.

1. I do believe young people can change things.
2. She does care about animal rights. (care perd le -s)
3. They did warn us about the storm. (warn revient à la base)
4. He does work hard, even if you don’t think so.
5. could barely see
6. extremely worrying

1. The USA emits twice as much CO2 per person as France.
2. The hotter it is, the more energy we use.
3. Few countries have kept their commitments.
4. Neither solution is perfect.
5. It’s the worst flood in the country for fifty years.
6. A two-hundred-page report has been published.

1. Electric cars are cheaper to run.
2. Toronto is the biggest city in Canada.
3. She is a sixteen-year-old student.
4. Every student must hand in the essay.
5. Neither of them voted.
6. There are fewer cars in the city centre now. (dénombrable)

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