Fragments

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

25. If you ring up the police.

26. Not been doing this long.

27. If he doesn’t get here soon.

28. Go easy.

29. If you have no objection.

30. Because the box was empty.

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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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