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The key answer of exercise Grammar

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 12 - Language focus 2 for the textbook Cutting Edge Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor and Jonathan Bygrave from Pearson Education

Question

Match the verbs in bold in exercise 4 to the descriptions below.

Answer

  1. not to focus
  2. not looking
  3. to be taken (Used here because it's clear who she wanted to take her seriously.)
  4. being criticised (Used here because the people who criticised him are not specified.)
  5. to be suffering
  6. to have met (Used to refer to the past, i.e. it's not possible to meet Marilyn Monroe now.)
  7. having died