–This summer is very hot. --Yes, but it’s not __________ as hot as last summer.

She felt ________ awkward because of her bad performance on the stage.

Just a month before the earthquake the school practiced an emergency drill showing the children how to __________ find their “safe place”.

“I think the tie beautiful,” I said, “A man can never have ______ many ties.”

He looked at those jewels one after another ______and seemed to show no interest in any one of them.