1

This is an ______ (easy) but ______ (useful) exercise. I hope you can ______ (easy) fill in the ______ (correct) forms.

2

Percy is rather ______ (intelligent); it is ______ (real)  ______ (surprising) that he is such a ______ (careless) driver. He should drive more ______ (careful).

3

Do the girls dance ______ (good) ? - No, they all dance ______ (bad). Only Edith is a ______ (good) dancer and a ______ (remarkable) ______ (pretty) girl at that. She is always ______ (good) dressed.

4

Does your father smoke? - Yes, he ______ (general) smokes cigarettes, ______ (occasional) also a cigar, but that's rather ______ (unusual).

5

Klaus has attended classes ______ (regular) and now he speaks English ______ (fluent). Sometimes it is not ______ (easy) to understand what he says because he speaks so ______ (terrible) ______ (fast). His pronunciation is quite ______ (correct).

6

Miles is not ______ (bad) at French, but he does his homework very ______ (slow). Sometimes, however, when he wants to go swimming, he is ______ (surprising) ______ (quick).

Hans Brinkmann and Oliver Gray: Avoiding mistakes. A Practice Book for Intermediate Learners. Lern- und Übungsbuch für die Sekundarstufe I; Verlag Moritz Diesterweg, Frankfurt/M., 1981, page 117