After deciding to go out and play, Gwen located her jacket.. 15.The arboretum in our town has some beautiful pine trees. They have (a /- ) good food in that restaurant. The amount of/ The number of) students taking TOEFL is increasing. 11 .The house needs (paint), but we plan to wait until next summer to do it.
I first met Ann. 13.The girl, the brothers of__ study in our school, looks very nice. 10.The woman that her photograph was in the paper is making a speech at the town hall tonight. 11.The director of this organization must __ to manage money, sell his product, and satisfy the stockholders.
Sequence of Tenses 97
Jean had (lain, laid) in the sun so long that her skin was bright pink. I have lain your notebook on the table by the door so that you won't forget it. When Betty arrived home, she found her husband laying on the sofa asleep as usual.
Jones had carefully lain her children's clothes out ready for the children to put on. The student wasn't able to do the translation because he (not / know) some special terms. I knew that Mercury (be) the closest planet to the Sun, but I didn't feel like answering the question.
It is an accepted custom for a man to open the door when he accompanied a woman. Davis tried to finish his research, but he found only part of the information that he needs. Mary does not finish her homework in time to go with us to the football game yesterday afternoon.
We thought he is planning to go on vacation after the first of the month. After Maureen writes in her diary, she hid it in the secret drawer of her roll-top desk. Marlon's lawn mower does not start on cold days unless he put it in a sunny spot for at least half an hour.
Michael explained that he couldn't come to the party because he was working that evening. We were disappointed when the receptionist told that the hotel was fully booked that week. When she told us that everything was ready, we went into the dining room and seated ourselves.
SAY/TELL 100
Antecedents of Pronouns 101
When anyone becomes president of the bank, they must promise not to enter politics for at least two years. One of them puts his lunch out on the windowsill every day to keep it cool. He put all his savings in the stock market, and it suffered great losses that year.
Every person who asked was permitted to bring his or her book to class to use during the examination. Each of the children may use the swimming pool if he promises to be careful. 9.If everybody who had come to the meeting had brought their report with them, the meeting would have gone a lot more smoothly.
One of the first students to come into the room could not find his name on the list. In order to graduate, one must present their thesis thirty days prior to the last day of classes. Each of the students in the accounting class has to type their own research paper this semester.
For successful completion of this exercise, one must give his complete attention to the task at hand. Imagining that life exists on Titan, one of Saturn's moons, many science fiction stories have been written. Believing the ten-year-old clothes in the back of her closet will someday come back into fashion, none of them have been thrown away.
El Dorado was the fabled city of gold sought by early Spanish explorers in the New World. At the peak of the jump, a pole-vaulter performs a series of (twisting/twisted) body motions to clear the bar. John had gave his speech when Bob was finally able to get to the meeting.
Redundancy 107
He parked his car on the street so that he would not have to pay for parking in the garage. 16.The first transistor was basically a small chip made of germanium onto one surface of which two pointed wire contacts __ side by side. In the big leagues of business you've got to know what you are worth.
You're in the big leagues now - no more fooling around 6. A) the nearest bar (B) a police station. Can you complete each sentence in the list with the appropriate phrase from the second. How can you put up with E. your address before I forget it 6. the barbecue in the garden tonight 7. the noise and fumes of town life 8.
Transformation of Direct and Indirect Objects 112
Inversion 112
If she had found out that he had been married before, she would never have married him.
Prepositions, Conjunctions and Problem Vocabulary
Conjunctions 118
North Carolina is well known not only for the Great Smoky Mountains Natural Park __ for the Cherokee Indian Settlements. One of the largest jigsaw puzzles ever completed contained 10,000 pieces, (and, or) it took 2,500 hours to complete. It looked dark and heavy __ it was going to rain. he had read the instructions several times, he knew what to do. he cannot afford a car, he rides a bicycle.
5.__ the cities do not provide better and cheaper mass transport, the traffic problem will get worse. you go to Canada, you should visit Toronto. It isn't very __ to leave the lights on when you're not in the room. He put his keys in his coat pocket so that he would not loose them.
Do not send any of these booklets too people who did not put their complete address on the form. Exercise 243. l)Write the letter of the choice that is most nearly the same in meaning as the word on the left.
Structure and Written Expression
In the stringed instruments, the tones __ by playing a bow across a set of strings that may be made of wire or gut. It has been estimated that __ one hundred thousand men participated in the gold rush of 1898. apples are grown in Washington State. When Jacqueline Kennedy was first lady, she collected many beautiful antiques and __ them among the original pieces in the White House.
If he didn't hope for some heavenly pie-in-the-sky, he would probably be a real crook. There were lots of promises at the town square today when four baby-kissers tried to rally interest in the upcoming election.
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Idioms 139
I asked my teacher to __ the mistakes that I made in my essay so that I could correct them. One of the local yokels helped me change the tire The local yokels all listen to the same radio station. I've seen that dog and pony show so many times; it's like I know all the words. to put the bite on someone.
When only a child, I was taken to the machines, Johanna sewed elaborate circus by my father.
