Answer — Exercise 7
10 - Under the knife·Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book
Question
With your partner, discuss how and why each of the vague expressions in Exercise 6 is used. Then read the box and check your ideas.
Answer
- We use sort of before verbs to show we can’t find the exact word.
- We add or something to suggest a non-specific alternative to the thing mentioned.
- We use a load of to refer to a large, unspecified amount.
- We add and everything to refer vaguely to other associated things.
- We use or so with periods of time to show we are not being exact.
- We use somehow with verbs to show we do not know exactly how.
- We use some kind of before nouns to show we do not know what kind exactly.
- We use some kind of before nouns to show we do not know what kind exactly, and we use or anything to suggest an absence of things.