lOMoAR cPSD| 49431889 Ex 4:
1. Unless you promise to try harder, I won't help you
2. Carol accused June of cheating
3. She has bought that house since 1973 4. He is believed to be armed
5. We are going to have our house painted by a local firm
6. He advised us to go by train
7. She is too old to have any more children 8. You needn't shout
9. The play was so dull that he feel asleep10. She enquired where the nearest tube was Ex 5:
1. She reminded him to phone the office.
2. I wish I had time to listen to you.
3. John has just been released by the police.
4. They were speaking too softly for me to hear.
5. It took us 5 hours to get to London.
6. She’s not used to staying up late. Ex 10: 1.
If I hadn’t lost my passport last week. I wouldn’t be having so much trouble now. 2.
Hardly had she begun to speak before/when people started interrupting
her.3. The team leader criticised John for not waiting/for not having waited for them.
4. If I had (only) been thinking, I wouldn’t have made that terrible mistake.
5. The police caught him climbing over the garden wall.
6. Getting into work this morning was a bit difficult.
7. He might not have got my letter.
8. We were planning/going/intending to visit./ We were to visit granmother, so we left early in the morning.
9. Sad as it is, unemployment is unlikely to go down this year.
10. Much to our regret, we have to/ are obliged to inform you that your
application has not been successful. Ex 11: lOMoAR cPSD| 49431889
1. It last snowed here six years ago./ It hasn’t snowed here for six years.
2. No sooner had the burglar left the building than someone rang the alarm.
3. The man is believed to have escaped in a stolen car.
4. There’s very little/ hardly anything he doesn’t know about whales.
5. Only when they told me about it later did I realise what I had missed.
6. The more popular television programmes become, the worse they seem to get.
7. Having nothing else to do, we decided to go for a walk.
8. The sooner we can solve the problem, the better it will be for all concerned.
9. There were far fewer people there than I had expected.
10. He dismissed the whole idea as being ridiculous. Ex 12:
1. She flatly refused to sleep in the/that haunted house.
2. So great was the demand that they had to reprint the book immediately.
3. On being asked about the strike, the Minister declined to comment.
4. Anyone found trespassing on this land will be prosecuted (by the authorities).
5. They didn’t need to/ They didn’t have to call for help after all.
6. They can’t (possibly) have been playing in this weather.
7. You needn’t have gone to all that trouble / You didn’t need to go to all that trouble.
8. I’d rather go out for a meal than stay at home.
9. Nowhere will you find a more delicated worker than Mrs Jones.
10. He denied stealing/having stolen/ that he had stolen the car, but admitted
borrowing/having borrowed/ that he had borrowed it. Ex 13:
1. No matter how often I invite him for a weekend with us, he’s always too busyto come.
2. It’s unlikely to snow today.
3. As well as being bad-tempered, she’s very lazy.
4. As no one has raised any disapproval of the scheme, I suggest we go ahead.
5. However experienced you may be, driving fast is dangerous.
6. Living in a big city is not to my liking.
7. Our French exam was not as difficult as our German one.
8. I haven’t played football since 1971. lOMoAR cPSD| 49431889
9. I should have thought of that before.
10. I asked my friend if he would like a cup of tea. Ex 14:
1. She quite definitely came up to their expectations.
2. The boy’s work must be improvable.
3. At no time was the outcome of the election in doubt.
4. Doris mistook the woman in front of her for her sister-in-law.
5. The atmosphere in that house was so frightening that we had to leave immediately.
6. No matter how hard I tried, I just couldn’t get the money.
7. I’m going to have my piano tuned tomorrow.
8. While the oil refinery strike was going on, there were enormous petrol queues.
9. It’s time we bought a new cooker.
10. It was such a powerful stereo that I nearly went deaf. Ex 15:
1. No sooner had the thieves touched the safe than tear gas was released.
2. She couldn’t possibly have been in London on the 26th.
3. I can’t remember when our appointment is.
4. Unfortunately I shan’t stay here long enough to visit many of the tourist attractions.
5. I am not in the habit of sleeping in the afternoon.
6. The hotel was more expensive than any one we had stayed in before.
7. There has been a considerable increase in the cost of living in the last few years.
8. Mary suggested John and her going to Paris for the weekend.
9. We will break our journey in France on our way to Germany.
10. The managing director has no intention to resign.