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The key answer of exercise 6

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 5.2 - Three apples a day for the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Rewrite each sentence. Move the position of the underlined phrases and use a fronter with no extra pronoun (F), a header (H) or a tail (T). Make all other necessary changes (to punctuation, etc.).
  2. Listen and tick the sentences where you hear a pause. Listen again and say the sentences with the speaker, focusing on whether to pause or not.

Answer

a)

  1. Some things I'll never understand.
  2. Your phone, would you mind lending me it / it to me just for tonight?
  3. He / She's just come in, that friend of yours.
  4. That book I lent you, have you finished it?
  5. Why he married her I really don't know.
  6. A: Why is he here? B: That I couldn't tell you.
  7. I don't think it's the right job for you, working as a model.
  8. That actor, I forget his name, but he was in Thor.

b)

  • 2 ✓, 3 ✓, 4 ✓, 7 ✓, 8 ✓
  • The sentences with commas (headers and tails) use pausing.
  • The sentences that use simple fronting (with no extra pronoun) with no commas have no pause: 1,5,6.