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Complete the food critic's brutally honest restaurant review.
The appetizer was actually _________________________ than the reviews claimed, making it a truly tragic start to the meal. However, the main course was surprisingly _________________________ than anything I have ever tasted! It just goes to show that this chef is much _________________________ at cooking entrees than starters.

The appetizer was actually worse than the reviews claimed... However, the main course was surprisingly more delicious than anything... ...this chef is much better at cooking entrees...

Worse is the irregular comparative form of "bad."

More delicious is used because "delicious" is an adjective with three or more syllables, so we use "more" instead of adding "-er."

Better is the irregular comparative form of "good."

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Adjective

If you've ever written a French nice old wooden table and felt something was wrong without knowing why, you've hit the adjective-order rule. English insists on a particular sequence — opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin, material — and rearranging the words makes a sentence sound non-native even when every individual choice is correct.

An adjective describes a noun or pronoun: a tall building, the soup is hot. Most adjectives also take comparative and superlative forms (taller, tallest), which is how you compare things — another core piece you need from day one.

Comparative and superlative

If you've ever doubled up — more better, the most cleverest — you've felt the most common comparative mistake. The fix is small but immediate: every adjective gets one comparative pattern, never both. Once you internalise which words use -er/-est and which use more/most, comparing things stops being a guess.

The comparative form compares two things (taller, more polite); the superlative picks the extreme of three or more (the tallest, the most polite). Short adjectives typically take -er/-est; longer ones use more/most. A small set are irregular: good → better → best, bad → worse → worst.

A2 | Elementary | Pre-intermediate

If you can order coffee, ask for directions, and tell someone what you did yesterday — but struggle the moment the conversation drifts into anything abstract — you're operating at A2. Knowing this matters: A2 is the level where most learners plateau because they reach for B2 material too early and burn out. Stay here and your foundations get unbreakable.

A2 is the elementary level in the CEFR framework, covering routine communication and the first wave of real grammar: past simple and continuous, present perfect, basic modal verbs, first conditional, and common verb-pattern rules.

Difficulty: Medium

If easy questions feel too obvious but hard questions leave you guessing, you're probably ready for Medium — the level where most real learning happens. It pushes just enough to expose the rules you don't quite have yet, without burying you in edge cases. This is where steady fluency is built, one well-aimed challenge at a time.

The Medium difficulty tag marks middle-range challenges — typically A2 to B1. One rule per question, realistic distractors, and contexts that require active thought rather than instant recognition.