Pg.

130

1.There is a letter for you on the desk

2.We had fish and chips for lunch.

3.Peter and Jack are much of a size.

4.He confused the posivite and negative terminals,a serious mistake.

5.Birds of a feather flock together.

6.A boy’s first toy is very important.It colours his whole after-life.

7.Under the circumstances a normal girl would be heart-broken.

8.”You are pretty confindent up to a point,aren’t you?”he asked

9.An island is surrounded on all sides by water.

10.Mr.Smith called while you were out.He wants to make a complaint about an article in the paper.

11.Do you take sugar in coffee?I used to,but now I’m on a diet.I’m trying to lose weight.

12.A cold drink on a hot day is acceptable.

13……….truth is a virtue….self-righteousness is certainly a vice.

14.It is difficult to get about in that region without a car.

15.A drowning man catches at a straw.

PG.131

1.One of my friends advised me to take a taxi;another said that there was quite a good bus service.

2.A friend of mine lent me a book by Meredith.I’ve only one more chapter to read.Would you like a
loan of it afterwards?No thanks,I read one of his a few weeks ago and didn’t like.

3. A man I met on the train told me a rather unusual story.

4.I’ve told you a hundred times not to come into a room with your hat on.

5.It’s unlucky to light tree cigarettes with one match.That’s only a superstition.Only an idiot believes
in superstitions.

6.One plate is no good;we need a dozen.

7.You’ve been a grate help for me;one day I will repay you.

8.My car broke down near a bus stop.There was a man waiting for bus,so I asked him for advice.He
took a quick look at my car and said:”Buy a new one”

9.There was a woman there.The rest were men.There should’t have been even one woman.It was
meant to be a stag party.

10.Could you lend me a dictionary,please?I’m trying to do a crossword puzzle.I’m afraid I’ve got only
one dictionary and Tom’s borrowed it.
PG 133

1.Few people study Latin and Greek today.

2.He knows little about the problem under circumstance.

3.I have a little money left;let’s have dinner in a restaurant.

4.Few people live to be a hundred,but according to statistics there were a few

5.I know a few of these students;they come from Greece.

6.I know few of these people.

7.We are few.Not fewer then as at our last meeting.

8.You have done a little for us.

9.He has few chance of winning.

10.A few of these books are excellent.

11.He has a few friends who call to see him quite frequently.

12.He has a few savings and can live quite comfortably on them.

PG 136

1.It was too heavy a parcel for them to carry it.

2.The tree had so very smooth a trunk that a monkey could not climb it.

3.Peter wrote as a good essay as Jack.

4.You will never realize how a clever actor Richard Barton was.

5.We can’t afford buying a house as that large house.

6.I should have known how difficult was a job.

7.I have read as many books an English grammar as Mary.

8.She was so well-behaved a child that one hardly noticed here.

9.The mistake was too obvious that it could not be overlooked.

10.It was so long a drive,that everybody got tired.

PG.142

1.My neighbour is a photographer.,let’s ask him for advice.

2.I ought to have been an agronomist to spend a lot of time outdoors.

3.As Prime Minister he kept in touch with everyone he had known.

4.Mrs.Nelson was the wife of the manager of the firm.

5.Peter was rather disappointed at not becoming an opera singer.

6.He was chosen Chairman of the Society.

7.He was regarded as a budding genius.

8.The committee elected him managing director.

9.Peter’s brother was trained as a toolmaker.

10.He used to be a teacher till he turned explorer.

11.Boy as he was,he was chosen their leader.

12.As Chairman of the Board,I call on Mr.Goodsall to speak.

13.Mike is sure to qualify as a male nurse.

14.He isn’t a professional musician,but he plays the violin well.

15.It was not easy to imagine her as leader of the expedition.

16.We elected him honorary member of the council.

17.He was a physician and Chairman of the Medical Council.

18.He served as a captain in the Grenadier Guards and for a time,he acted as Aide-de-Camp to the
Governor General of Canada.

19.He rose at the rank of Commandor during the Great French War and retired with the rank of
Admiral.

21.She is a woman enough to handle such a delicate problem.

PG 144

1.Books are necessary for an student.Books for this course are not expensive.

2.Silver is almost as precious as gold.I would not do it for all the gold in the world.

3.Art belongs to the people.The art of public speaking must be learnt.

4.Fashion has always existed in art as well as in dress.Those fur hats are all the fashion.

5.He had an unsatisfied hunger for knowledge.She married without the knowledge of her parents.

6.History is record of events.The European history I studied at school helped me a great deal in my
further studies.

7.

8.Animals are content to eat and slepp.He wanted to see all the animals on the farm.

9.Do you like English literature?Yes,I do.But I prefer the English literature of the eighteenth century.

10.Which would you prefer tea or coffee?The coffee you are drinking comes from Brazil.

11.He was conscious of impending danger.The danger he was in didn’t make him lose heart.
12.She put the roses that I brought her in a vase. Roses are her favourite flowers.

13.Honesty is best policy.The honesty of Jane is admirable.

14.Beauty is truth is a line from a poem by Keats.It’s much easier to tell the truth than lies.

15.I was overcome by anger.He feared the anger of his wife.