Cover of the textbook Cutting Edge Advanced - Workbook

The key answer of exercise 5

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 10 - Truth and lies for the textbook Cutting Edge Advanced - Workbook with authors Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor and Damian Williams from Pearson Education

Question

Cross out the unnecessary words in the conversation. The number of words to be crossed out is shown at the end of each line. Hyphenated or contracted forms count as two words. In some cases, you may need to add a word. 

Answer

  • A: Be careful! You nearly knocked over that poor cyclist.
  • B: I'm sorry. It's not easy to look at the road and the map at the same time.
  • A: Well, I did offer to map-read, but you wouldn't let me map read.
  • B: Because you always get us lost. Or you did get us lost last time, anyway.
  • A: No, I didn't get us lost! You wouldn't listen to me!
  • B: Never mind. Are there any more sweets? Can I have one a sweet?
  • A: No, you can't have a sweet. You ate the last one sweet an hour ago.
  • B: It's a pity we didn't get some more sweets when we stopped for petrol.
  • A: Just a minute. Did that sign say Crawley ten miles?
  • B: I think so it said Crawley ten miles. Why?
  • A: Because it means we're going in the wrong direction!