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Kozhemyakina, 222
Unit 17. People: character & behaviour
1. While being at home or in a the company of familiar people, the girl was
extremely active and tireless in asking her parents detailed endless questions
about every single thing that caught her vivid imagination, though all in all,
in the face of with strangers, she gave the impression of being painfully shy.
2. My neighbour, who was is otherwise very good company (because he could
sing and recite poetry – this is a bit too much – the sentence is too long and
convoluted as it is! ), had has a significant character flaw – his peculiar
sense of humour, in respect of with which you might never know when if he
speaks in a brutally honest manner and when he is or simply making a fool
out of you.
3. His wife, Mary, had a tendency tried to keep her temper and not to reveal
her true character feelings, swallowing any personal insults she may
received, but then, at some point, she’d finally lose lost her patience and
throw threw a tantrum. [‘Throwing a tantrum’ is usually applied to young
children, who would cry and scream when they are denied something they
want. I don’t think that a woman who has had her fill of insults can be justly
described as ‘throwing a tantrum’.]
4. Being under so much pressure for quite a while he came to the conclusion
that (he’d better) he should swallow his pride and try to come to terms with
the circumstances.
5. The (unhappiest) most unfortunate aspect of captain Captain Smollett’s
personality is his suspiciousness and directness. He can never take a joke
that the members of the crew sometimes play on him and always sets high
standards for his closest associates (nearest comrades), as being in a constant
fear of a mutiny.
6. Everything, from the way he held himself, to the way he spoke , to and that
look of supreme confidence in his eyes, said he could do it.
7. I won’t bear a grudge against you if you reveal all the truth, so go ahead and
be sure – you won’t hurt my feelings.
Well done on the whole, but most of your sentences are unnaturally long
and, as I’ve already written above, too convoluted. Because of that they are
not really in the style people speak or write today, but rather more in the
style of Stevenson, whose character figures in one of your sentences :)). So
the decision to ‘pack’ several collocations in a single sentence is not always
the right one.