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

The key answer of exercise 1

The key to exercise solutions in chapter Review and practice 5 for the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book with authors JJ Wilson with Antonia Clare from Pearson Education

Question

Rewrite the sentences with the correct words in brackets. There may be more than one possible answer.

Answer

  1. They explained how the project would be too difficult to manage, and to a certain extent I agree.
  2. They didn't know who I was talking about. Apparently, Georgia left the company years ago.
  3. I decided to leave and change careers. With hindsight, I'm not sure that I made the right decision.
  4. By and large, the new arrangements have worked out well. / The new arrangements have worked out well, by and large.
  5. The new minister was faced with a seemingly impossible task. / The new minister was, however, faced with an impossible task.