... is a city dreams seldom come true.
10. Do you remember the year Donna graduated from college?
11. The meals you get at camp leave a lot to be desired.
12. English is especially diffi cult for ... of.
9. The committee arranged meetings with all the candidates that they wanted to interview.
10. I phoned all the people that were on my list.
11. The members that wanted to renew had to fi...
... about the new employees who were just hired.
9. The building where I work is being remodeled.
10. The last telephone number that you gave me doesn’t work.
11. The new engine will burn any fuel ... Coast.
8. I always enjoy reading comics in Sunday paper.
9. In Italy, wine is taxed as food.
10. Robert is last person to know what’s going on.
11. We are planning to go on hike this weeken...
...
overemphasized.
It is helpful to think of the restrictive modifi er as part of the meaning of the antecedent noun.
Since the restrictive modifi er is part of the meaning of the noun, the restrictive modifi er ... We use indefi nite articles to signal that the hearer is not expected to
know in advance which particular noun we are talking about. In this sense, common nouns with
indefi nite...
... ask.
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Verb Phrases
PART 2
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104 Noun Phrases
Wh- word as ... bucks for.
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9. My friends were trying to guess they would pick which one.
10. I had no idea about we shoul...
... make up the
tense system of English. The six basic verb forms are the base, the present tense, the past tense,
the infi nitive, the present participle, and the past participle. The next chapter ... irregular verb run:
VERB FORMS
Base Present Past Infi nitive Present Past
form tense tense participle participle
walk walk/walks walked to walk walking walked
run run/runs ran to run running run
W...
...
English that it was a few generations ago.
Exercise 13.5
Change the following statements containing have into both British and American English.
We have a problem.
British English American English
Have ... ready.
There are not many differences in grammar between British and American English, but the
use of have as a main verb is one of them. In American English, have as a main...
... into English that way of
forming indirect questions. Here is an example of such an error with a yes-no question:
Direct: He asked, “Are you fi nished?”
Indirect: X He asked are you fi nished?
English ... “Will you turn off the lights in your offi ce?”
9. I asked them, “Did you hear the news?”
10. He asked, “Is Tina leaving for Seattle Sunday?”
11. The waiter asked me, “Did you ha...
... writing out the exercises.
English Grammar Drills is organized into three parts: Part 1 covers noun phrases, the fi rst of
the two fundamental building blocks of English grammar. Noun phrases function ... achiev-
ing a native-like command of English grammar. While the book covers most areas of English
grammar, it has a heavy concentration on those aspects of grammar that h...
... cottage
10. colleague
11. clause
12. clash
13. hedge
14. phone
15. freeze
16. share
17. duty
18. patch
19. allowance
20. sheet
For a variety of historical reasons, English ... ring-rings; thing-things; throng-throngs; rung-rungs; song-songs
Since all vowels are voiced in English, this rule also governs the plural of all words ending in
a vowel sound. For example:...