Fragments

Say whether these short utterances make whole sentences or not; and if they don’t, add whatever is necessary.

79. Never seen her.

80. As far as I am concerned.

81. Gone home.

82. So that they could look into the room.

83. That he had a nice smile.

84. Unless he did.

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Clay Lane Think and Speak

Clay Lane

December 28 NS

December 15 OS

The Rewards of ‘Patience’ : How appropriate that the comic opera ‘Patience’ should introduce the world to the results of thirty years of labour.

Season of Goodwill : ‘Goodwill’ was on everyone’s lips, but the Roman Emperor and the God of Israel had very different ideas about it.

The Two Shakespeares : Arthur Clutton-Brock complained that idealising Shakespeare had made him dull.

Fairway : Use each noun below in two sentences, first as the subject, and then as the object of a verb.

England Expects : Lieutenant John Pasco not only flew the most famous signal in British history, he helped write it.

Running Late : Use these adverbial clauses in your own sentences.

Peggy’s Dog : Some lines from the comic verse of Thomas Hood, for reading aloud.

An Interruption : Report this conversation without using direct speech.

Tender Plants : Prince Albert regretted the destructive power of the Art Critic.

Lost for Words : Join these ideas together into a single sentence, using ‘although’ or ‘though’.

Loan Words : Match these words to the language they come from, whether Old Norse, Malay or Welsh.

Evidence : Join these ideas together to form a single sentence, using the relative pronoun ‘who’.

Fatal Vow : Robert Pierrepont called heaven to witness that he would never pick a side in the Civil War.

Lost and Found : What would you in these difficult situations?

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