IV. Grammar Review: Degrees of Comparison.

B. In English both as and like are used in comparisons, but as is a conjunction and is followed by a clause, and like is a preposition and is followed by a noun. Study the examples below:

1. He worked on the farm as his father had done before him.

2. It’s like cream, only with fewer calories.

3. She worked as a waitress over the summer.

4. Do you see this job as something you want to do for a long time?

5. She is as tall as me.

6. They worked as hard as they could.

7. I will reply as soon as possible.

8. As the weather was so bad, we stayed in and played chess.

C. ‘As … as’ for comparison. Transform the following sentences, using as … as, or

not as/so … as.

(Helpful words: as many as, as well as (2), as long as, as soon as, …).

1. She enjoys her work more than Alan does.

2. This is the happiest day of my life!

3. He’s a lot less interesting to talk to than he used to be.

4. Their later advertisements don’t have the same appeal as their earlier ones.

5. She’s less arrogant than I thought.

6. There were many participants at the conference, just one hundred people.

7. Besides working during the day in an office, she also works in the evening in a restaurant.

8. When I heard the news, I told all my friends.

9. You can go, but you promise to come back.

10. They’ve got a flat in London, also they have a cottage in the country.

D. Translate the following sentences from the texts into Russian paying attention to different meanings of as and like in English:

1. As the supply of graduates grows, and the quality of teaching in Britain's shabby, crowded universities declines, this signal is fading.

2. Nowadays, unlike in 1970s and in 1990s, education plays a smaller role in social mobility than it used to.

3. What these posts did require were skills in communication and team-working, and personal attributes such as “good appearance”, “good manners”, “character” and “presence”.

4. Bad luck for those who come across as tongue-tied, crass or nervous, regardless of their academic achievements.

5. If you are selling high-value things like real estate, you will be interacting with middle-class people and you will do better if you are familiar with their style, manners etc.

6. As services have been growing at the expense of manufacturing, the qualities that employers in the service sector want are those the middle classes acquire at home: articulacy, confidence and smartness.

7. Typical examples are management jobs in fast-growing industries such as leisure and retailing, as well as posts in public relations, in sales and customer care.

8. We want the skills like inter-personal ones, awareness, attitude, eagerness to learn: are they rounded individuals?

9. As a growing number of university researchers seek international partners to work on solutions to global problems, the best opportunities for research collaboration for the UK are expected to be in the US, Germany, France, Italy, Canada and Australia.

10. The UK’s economy could reap the rewards of a "decade of opportunity" through global higher education and research as long as its universities, colleges and businesses make the right moves in emerging markets, with support from the Government.