FACULTY OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION AND ECONOMICS - UPC
ENGLISH-1 L1 LMD FASE
ASSIGNMENT 2
Due by email to pmandeb@[Link] on Friday, January 13, 2025, by 11:59 pm.
Please write the name of each member of your group and indicate if he has been active during this
assignment.
Exercise 1. Choose one pair of words to complete each pair of sentences. In some sentences,
you can use either adjective in the pair, in which case write them both; in others you can use
only one of them. ©
Domestic – unsafe educational – entertaining inevitable-utter
legal–stupid serious- underlying
1. a. The experiment was a/an …………….failure.
b. After Dr Owen left the project, its failure was ……………..
2. a. None of the equipment in the warehouse is.……………..
b. All ……………equipment should be switched off at the end of the day.
3. a. The trip to the wildlife park was a/an ……………….experience.
b. The toys were ……………and the children played with them for hours.
4. a. The fault in the computer system is ………..enough to disrupt all the work in the office.
b. The …………….problem has not yet been solved.
5. a. he was involved in a ……………….argument with his neighbour over some trees in the
garden.
b. it’s completely …………to charge a fee for entry into the museum.
Exercise 2. Underline the correct or more likely alternative. If both are possible, notice the
difference between them.
1. It was almost as if the wolf was more scared/scareder of us than we were of it.
2. The river was more deep/deeper than I expected so I decided to turn back.
3. I think I’d describe her as more pretty/prettier than beautiful.
4. He had always seemed unfriendly, but now they were alone he seemed even more
cold/colder.
5. I bought this tennis racket because it‘s more strong/stronger.
6. As a politician I often receive threats, but some are more real/realer than others.
7. There were two routes up the hill, but as we had lots of time we took the more long/longer,
more winding/windinger one.
8. Sam isn’t a bad boy really. He’s more naughty/naughtier than dishonest.
9. Although a different speaker began to talk, I felt even more bored/boreder than before.
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Exercise 3. If necessary, make improvements to these sentences. If they are already correct,
write “correct”.
1. There’s something which I should tell you.
2. The doctor whom Ingrid went to see was very thorough.
3. Yesterday was the hottest day I can remember.
4. There isn’t much can go wrong with the machine.
5. Thieves whom stole paintings from Notford art gallery have been arrested in Paris.
6. It may be the most important decision which you will ever take.
7. The boy took the photograph was paid $100.
8. I heard many different accents in the room, but none which I could identify as British.
9. There’s this dream which I have every night about falling downstairs.
10. He just said anything which came into his head.
Exercise 4. Complete the sentences with an -ing, -ed or being + -ed form of these verbs. Then
rewrite the sentence using a relative clause instead of the participle clause.
Build drive educate elect flow hold introduce
need print say take tell off
1. The man driving the bus is my brother. The man who is driving the bus is my brother.
2. I went to a reunion for students………..in the physics department during the 1980s.
3. As my aunt told me what she thought, I felt like a schoolboy……………by this
headmaster.
4. There is a sign on the gate…………….. ”Entry forbidden”.
5. Across the river were some of the deer……………. into the park in the 19th century.
6. Rivers ……………into the Baltic Sea are much cleaner now than ten years ago.
7. The booklets ………………as we speak will be on sale later this afternoon.
8. Anyone …………..further information can see me in my office.
9. Mary O’Brien, the Democrat ……………….to the council only last week, has resigned.
10. We live in a house ………….in 1906.
11. The protest march ……………next week is expected to attract over 100,000 people.
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Exercise 5. Underline the correct answer. If both answers are possible, notice difference in
meaning.
1. Can you post this letter for myself/me, please?
2. All my friends were away, I was bored, and I just didn’t know what to do with myself/me.
3. We put the tape recorder on the table between ourselves/us.
4. They dragged the tree behind themselves/them all the way to the trailer.
5. Now that you’re a well-known novelist, you must hear a lot about yourself/you on TV and
in the newspapers.
6. He ought to be ashamed of himself/him, being rude to his parents like that.
7. She should take care of herself/her better. She ‘s looking really ill.
8. I opened the window in front of myself/me and took a deep breath of fresh air.