Cover of the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 8.3 - Everyday issues for the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book with authors JJ Wilson with Antonia Clare from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Look at rule A in the Active grammar box. Rewrite example 2 using fronting to emphasis the word why. Then check with website answer
  2. Find other examples of fronting in website answers 1, 3 and 4.
  3. Look at rule B in the Active grammar box. Find other examples of fronting phrases in website answers 1-4.

Answer

a)

Why you insist on fooling yourself, I really don't know.

b)

  • What you need to do is to put yourself in your friend's shoes.
  • What might also work is having some games available for the children.
  • There's not much you can do.
  • What they really care about isn't the morals or ethics of you embellishing your CV …

c)

  • The fact remains that you ...
  • The truth is ...
  • The point is ...
  • The fact of the matter is ...