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The key answer of exercise 10

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 12 - Your choice for the textbook Cutting Edge Intermediate - Workbook with authors Jane Comyns, Frances Eales and Damian Williams from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Read the following newspaper article and answer the questions.
  2. Use the prompts to make sentences about the story.

Answer

a)

  1. He ran away from home because his parents forced him to enrol in an electrician's course and because he wanted 'to become something in life'.
  2. His family thought he was dead.

b)

  1. If he hadn’t decided to 'become something in life', he wouldn’t have run away.
  2. If he hadn't run away he would have done an electrician's course.
  3. If he'd stayed at home, he'd be an electrician now.
  4. He wouldn't have had enough money to study if he hadn't worked as a waiter.
  5. If he had written to his parents, they wouldn't have thought he was dead.
  6. If they hadn't seen the programme they would have still thought he was dead.
  7. He wouldn't have scored 86.5 percent if he hadn't worked hard.
  8. If he hadn't been very clever, he wouldn't have won the award.