Exam tip: Use adverbs to make your comparisons more exact. | IELTS With Masters
Exam tip: Use adverbs to make your comparisons more exact.
To emphasise a difference, you can use: many, much, far, and significantly. Many more students sat examinations in science subjects. Science-related subjects were much more popular than arts-related subjects.
For small differences you can use: slightly or nearly as . .... as. The percentage of students gaining top marks in Chemistry was slightly higher than the percentage of students gaining top marks in Art and Design. Nearly as many students sat the Art and Design exam as did the Chemistry exam.
