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r Spotlight 3 Advanced comparatives and linking devices A further way to increase your range of language for describing comparatives is to use 'not + verb + as + noun phrase + as'. Crooners pic did not sell as many CDs as Monster Hits Records in 1990, with 225,000 compared to 230,000. Coffee in France does not cost as much as in the UK, at £2 and £2.90 respectively. 1 Look at the table on the left and complete these sentences with ‘n o t + (verb) + as + noun phrase + as'. Be careful, one sentence is different. 1 Japan did n o t...................Ethiopia, taking home nine compared to Ethiopia’s ten. 2 The USA won 4 8 gold medals, but this was nowhere n e a r...................China won. 3 The USA w a s.................. China, winning 4 8 medals compared to 62. 4 Australia did n o t...................the French athletes, taking home 21 compared to France’s 33. 2 W rite one false and tw o true comparative sentences about other information in the table in Exercise 1. Swap sentences w ith a partner, then check and correct the incorrect information.
