Answer — Exercise 2
8F - The Help·Solutions Upper-Intermediate - Workbook
Question
You are going to read an extract from the novel The Help. The author writes dialogues using the language conventions of the southern states of the USA. Rewrite the sentences below in standard British English.
Answer
- This is what she has been trying to ask me (for) the past two weeks.
- Do you think Miss Leefolt is going to agree to that?
- Doesn’t that sound kind of dangerous to you?