Cover of the textbook Outcomes Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 7

The key to exercise solutions in chapter Writing 3 - Stories for the textbook Outcomes Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Rewrite each pair of sentences as one sentence. Link your ideas using the words in brackets. Make any other changes you think are necessary.

Answer

  1. We were just about to leave when they gave us a table.
  2. I was just about to give up and go home when I saw him walking towards me.
  3. I was just about to go to bed when the doorbell rang.
  4. Just as we were walking towards our car, a police car suddenly drove up and stopped right in front of us.
  5. Just as we were starting to think the holiday was going to be a disaster, the sun came out.