SKILL 10: LISTEN FOR NEGATIVES WITH COMPARATIVES

Negatives can be used with comparatives in short dialogues.  A sentence with a negative and a comparative has a superlative, or very strong meaning.

Example:

Woman: What do you think of the new student in math class?

Man: No one is more intelligent than she is.

(Narrator) : What does the man say about the new student?

Possible answers:

    (A)   She is not very smart.

    (B)   He is smarter than she is.

    (C)   Other students are smarter than she is.

    (D)  She is the smartest student in the class.

As we can see, the man responds with the negative NO and the comparative More intelligent, and this combination has a superlative meaning, the smartest. Answer D is the correct answer. 

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