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Answer for exercise 8

The solution for exercise 8 in chapter 1.1 - Polyglots of New Total English Advanced - Students' Book by JJ Wilson with Antonia Clare

Question

  1. Look at examples 1-5 in the Active grammar box and underline the prepositions. What type of word does each preposition follow?
  2. Answer the questions for rules A and B in the Active grammar box.

Answer

a)

  1. succeeded in (verb)
  2. stems from (verb); joy of (noun)
  3. benefited from (verb)
  4. nervous about (adjective)
  5. difficult to (adjective); distinguish between (verb)

b)

A

  1. learning Swedish, Sanskrit and Persian
  2. the joy of solving the puzzle
  3. the fact that he came from a multilingual family
  4. garbling their languages
  5. distinguish between related languages

B → sentences 1 and 4

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More exercises in 1.1 - Polyglots
Exercise 2
Exercise 4
Exercise 5
Exercise 6
Exercise 9