Complete the food critic's slightly dramatic review by dragging the correct words into the blanks.
The pizza was actually better than I expected, but the pasta was definitely worse than my grandmother's. Also, the tiny chocolate dessert was significantly more expensive than a new pair of shoes!
The pizza was actually better than I expected, but the pasta was definitely worse than my grandmother's. Also, the tiny chocolate dessert was significantly more expensive than a new pair of shoes!
"Good" and "bad" are irregular adjectives; their comparative forms are "better" and "worse."
For long adjectives with three or more syllables (like "expensive"), we form the comparative by adding "more" before the adjective.
Adjective
An adjective is a word that describes a noun or pronoun — giving more information about its quality, state, or identity. Adjectives sit either before the noun (a tall building) or after a linking verb (The soup is hot), and they answer questions like what kind?, which one?, or how many?
Getting adjectives right matters for two everyday reasons: their position is fixed (you can't say a redly dress), and when you stack several before a noun, English follows a strict order — opinion, then size, then age, then colour. Break that order and the sentence sounds off even when each word is correct.
Comparative and superlative
The comparative form of an adjective compares two things (taller, more polite); the superlative picks out the extreme of three or more (the tallest, the most polite). Short adjectives usually take -er and -est suffixes (tall → taller → tallest), while longer adjectives use more and most (expensive → more expensive → most expensive). A handful are irregular and you simply have to memorise them: good → better → best, bad → worse → worst.
Getting comparatives and superlatives right matters because comparing is something you do constantly — and the wrong form (more taller, the most best) sounds clearly off.
A2 | Elementary | Pre-intermediate
A2 is the elementary level in the CEFR framework, sitting between A1 and B1. At A2 you can handle routine exchanges — ordering food, asking directions, making small talk — and describe your immediate environment in simple sentences.
Grammatically, A2 introduces past simple and past continuous, present perfect for experiences, basic modal verbs, and the first conditional. You're also picking up collocations and learning which verbs take gerunds vs. infinitives. Knowing your level here is the difference between confident progress and frustration: A2 material consolidates the basics; B1 will overwhelm you.
Difficulty: Medium
The Medium difficulty tag marks questions and challenges in the middle of the difficulty range — typically suitable for A2 to B1 learners. Expect a single rule with realistic distractors, longer sentences, and contexts where you have to think before answering rather than reading off the obvious choice.
Filter by Medium when you're past the absolute basics and ready to consolidate. It's the level where most lasting progress happens — easy enough that you can finish without exhausting concentration, hard enough that getting it right means you've actually understood.