... known')
We use get mainly in informal spoken English. You can use be in all situations.
We also use get in the following expressions (which are not passive in
meaning):
get married ... Would you mind ?
6. Please don't interrupt me all the time.
Would you mind?
52.4 Use your own ideas to complete these sentences. Use ~ing.
1. She's a very intere...
... had enough money to retire and enjoy
myself.
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1.I hope I don't lose my job. I just heard ...
retrain
7.I am retired. I started a computer software company that
grew into a fairly successful business. It attracted the
attention of some of the larger companies and a v...
... considering
getting of the machine
soon
coming
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1. We now move on to late March when I imagine that ... someone in the ' future'.
near
next
5. Another visit took in late April but the engineer,
although he had got the right part with him, was unable to...
... Outside drama the clipped
progressive is frequent in private journals.
3. 3 .4 Subjunctive
In the history of English as of other
Indo-European
languages,
there has
been a choice of three moods ... discussion of the imperative from the context of
verbal mood to that of clause type, section 3. 5 .4 below.) While the
indicative
was the unmarked mood,
53...
... apostrophe [’] That’s Jane’s car.
or contraction.
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5. I plan to remodel this room at the v
ery near future.
a. NO CHANGE
b. in the very near future
c. on the very near future
d. within the very near future
Answer...
... (on this corner).
6. Watch out thats dangerous.
f. NO CHANGE
g. Watch out, that’s dangerous.
h. Watch out—that’s dangerous!
j. Watch out; thats dangerous.
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Practice ... on April 30 , 2002.
Please print 3, 000 copies.
Edward Wener, Ph.D. has been contracted to write the book.
Please deliver the package to me at 30 Willow Road, Trenton, NJ.
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... that begins
with a class called
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27. The Beaufort Wind Scale, invented in 18 06 by
Admiral Francis Beaufort, uses the numbers
0 12 t
o describe air movement; one is a light
breeze, ... the stock market crash of 19 29 was known as
Black Friday, the 19 87 crash saw the largest one-
day percentage drop in value in history.
a. As the stock market crash of 19 29 was kno...
... 31. Which of the following is the best way to revise
the underlined portion of sentence 2?
(2) But two hundred years ag
o, bicycles weren’t even
existing, and the first bicycle, invented in ... bicycles didn’t exist
32. What is the most logical information, in context,
to add before sentence 8?
a. In France at that time, other inventions were
being made.
b. The English were quite ready ....
... in
the 1920’s and 30 ’s, including
b. American expatriot writers living in Paris in
the 1920’s and 30 ’s, including
c. American expatriate writers living in Paris in
the 1920s and 30 s, including
d. ... writers living in Paris in
the 1920s and 30 s and who included
e. American expatriot writers living in Paris in
the 1920s and 30 s, including
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14. Anton Bruckner, c...
... context of
the passage.
33. c. Sentences 4 and 6 introduce inventors, and
sentences 5 and 7 give greater details about
their inventions. Thus the two pairs (4 and 5,
6 and 7) belong together. Choice ... Thus the two pairs (4 and 5,
6 and 7) belong together. Choice c restores
chronological order.
34. a. The two sentences do not transition smoothly,
and another sentence is needed. However,...
... zero.
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34 . e. Choice e is the only one that eliminates the
repetition of the words foreign and policy. It is
the clearest and most concise choice.
35 . b. The change in ... –PRACTICE TEST 2–
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... actually bought Melanie
a present yesterday.
34 , 36 Word order in questions 1 13 Adverbs and word order page 37 7 Seem, look etc in American English
1 Exercises
1 What kind of word? (B) ... tomorrow, rather, really, here 1 13- 117
Preposition: at, to, on, in 118-125
Determiner: an, this, our, the 83- 97
Pronoun: I, it, you 98-1 03
Linking word: so, and 150-1 53
C Words in...