1. Mark the statements as True or False. True
False
1) To compare two things, we add -er to
many adjectives.
2) We add-est to make the superlative
form of many adjectives.
3) We never change the spelling of the
adjective before adding -er/-est.
4) We often use "than" after a
comparative.
5) We often use "the" before a
superlative.
6) With longer adjectives, we use "more"
+ adjective or "most" + adjective.
7) There are a lot of irregular
comparatives and superlatives.​

It 2 was first invented by the Chinese in about 500 BC. A machine for calculating 3( was invented) by Charles Babbage but it was difficult to build. The first real computer 4( was made in 1948 at Manchester University. It 5(was called) Mark I. The first small "home" computer 6( was sold in June 1975. Modern computers 7( are used) everywhere: in watches and washing machines, in cars and planes, in factories and offices. Special effects in films 8 are made) with computers and they 9 ( are used) also to make cartoon films. In the future everything in our life 10(will be done by computers and robots.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said he will instruct to study the possibility of increasing scholarships and to increase the responsibility for work graduates not in the field.
"Order, of course, I will give to the government. And I would ask my colleagues from the State Duma to connect", — he said at a meeting with activists of the party "United Russia" in Ryazan.
Medvedev noted that if we increase the scholarship simultaneously with increased responsibility, "it might work".
"We have to make our valued students, our children and grandchildren to take responsibility for the choice of specialty," he said.
He recalled that in Soviet years the graduates had to work in the specialty for several years.