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Insert the appropriate expressions, choosing from those given after each sentences, for the positive degree. No other desert in Africa is ______ the Sahara Desert.

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Insert the appropriate expressions, choosing from those given after each sentences, for the positive degree.

No other desert in Africa is ______ the Sahara Desert.

(biggest of all/nearly so big as/bigger as)

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Solution

No other desert in Africa is nearly so big as the Sahara Desert.

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Chapter 3.2: The Night I Met Einstein - English Workshop [Page 112]

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