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The key answer of exercise 5

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 8 - Reading for the textbook New Headway Advanced - Workbook with authors Liz Soars, John Soars and Paul Hancock from Oxford University Press

Question

Underline all examples of relative clauses and present and past participles in the text.

Answer

  • In buttoned-up blouses and billowing bloomers ...
  • But these are the members of Britain's first official female football teams, whose clashes on the field in the 1880s sparked riots off it and ...
  • The pictures, uncovered as part of an exhibition charting the history of women's football, reveal the characters who tackled a man's world for the first time.
  • However, while thousands flocked to see their matches, by 1895, when these photographs were taken, ...
  • ... as well as the dainty way in which the women set them off'.
  • Casting aside corsets in favour of voluminous knickerbockers and prim bonnets ...
  • ... it is not surprising that the match was attended by a crowd numbering several thousands, very few of whom would like to have their own sisters or daughters exhibiting themselves on the football field.'
  • At the centre of the furore was the British Ladies' Football Club, which played dozens of games that year.
  • Founded by the enigmatic Nellie Hudson, known as Nettie J. Honeyball, the club fielded teams called North and South, which played against each other.
  • In the North team was Helen Matthews, a goalkeeper who played under the name of Mrs Graham.
  • Stuart Gibbs, 47, who helped compile the exhibition, said ...
  • 'The games often caused anger from men who disliked women doing what, at the time, was a man's job.'

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