The key to exercise solutions in chapter 5.3 - In good company for the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book with authors JJ Wilson with Antonia Clare from Pearson Education
Question
Read the article on page 70 again. What purpose do the underline sentence adverbials serve?
Choose the correct options in rules A and B in the Active grammar box.
Complete the table in the Active grammar box with the underlined sentence adverbials from the article.
Answer
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a) Sentence adverbials can be used to make a comment (often an opinion) about the subject.
b)
beginning
comma
c)
Unexpected points → surprisingly enough; believe it or not
Generalisations → by and large; broadly speaking
How something appears → seemingly; apparently
Contrast → however; on the other hand
Reflection on the past → looking back; with hindsight
Partial agreement → to a certain extent; up to a point