Read through this short story. Which words do you think are missing?
Jennifer loved Halloween when she was young. One year she and her friends put on their Halloween costumes and went _1_ for sweets around the neighbourhood. That year Jennifer dressed up as a _2_ with a big black pointy hat, broomstick and long black dress.
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The basic tenses we need to talk about the present, past and future.
This cartoon is based on the idiom collecting dust.
If something is collecting (or gathering) dust, it isn't being used any more. Dust is the fine dirt that builds up on surfaces that have not recently been cleaned. Objects become dusty if they are not used for a long time.
Examples:
Adverbs of degree are used to modify verbs, adverbs and adjectives. They tell us the degree or extent to which something happens. There are a lot of adverbs of degree, here we introduce you to some common ones you should know.
Take a look at this sentence:
She swims slowly.
To give us more information about how she swims we can use adverbs of degree:
Adjectives are used to give us more information about nouns.
Blue cars
Young children
Difficult questions
When using more than one adjective, you should use this order: size/shape + age + color + origin + material.
A small wooden box
An old Russian painting
To make many opposite adjectives we use the prefixes un, in, or dis at the start of the word.
What are the six missing words in this text?
_1_ English journalist Ann Morgan realised that most of the books she read were by British and American authors, she decided to set herself a challenge: she would _2_ to read a book from every country in the world in English.
After creating a blog and promoting her mission on social media, she asked _3_ from around the world to recommend the books she should read.
Today's article is based on a topical issue in the news.
Hollywood actor George Clooney's new wife, lawyer Amal Alamuddin Clooney, has made a plea for the return of the Parthenon Marbles to Athens, in what Greeks hope may inject new energy into their national campaign.
The Parthenon Marbles, also known as the Elgin Marbles are a collection of classical Greek marble sculptures that originally were part of the Parthenon and other buildings on the Acropolis of Athens.
When you imagine something that is not real, it is all in your head.
They were not gossiping about you, it’s all in your head.
When you are ready and eager to listen, you are all ears.
Tell me what she said, I’m all ears.
When something is unusual for other people but not unusual for you, it’s all in a day’s work.
Read through this short text and guess what the missing words are:
Tim and Sara were brother and sister. They lived with their parents on a farm deep in the countryside.
As children they were never bored because there was always something to _1_ on the farm. Every day they would _2_ up early and help their parents feed the cows _3_ school.
If you do exactly what you are told to do, you follow instructions to the letter.
I don't know how it went wrong, I followed the instructions to the letter.
A letter a woman send to her boyfriend when she wants to end their relationship.
He's upset because he just got a Dear John letter from his girlfriend.