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The key answer of exercise 5

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 5.2 for the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Workbook with authors Richard Storton from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Read the description. When do you think the description occurs? Why?
  2. Rewrite the underlined phrases in the description using fronting.
  3. Which of the sentences you rewrote include an adverb at the beginning of the clause and which include a prepositional phrase?

Answer

a)

c

b)

  1. Steadily we climbed
  2. Urgently, Xeno scrambled up the slope, ignoring our warnings of loose rock and steep drops.
  3. and suddenly, we were in a clearing
  4. From the hillside jutted an outcrop of rock, offering
  5. Looking down from our vantage point, we saw
  6. Standing on the edge of the desert was a large skeletal building.
  7. In the harsh light the burnished roof gleamed and looked like a candle
  8. Ahead of them, was a great heap of machinery
  9. From among the rocks behind us carne a shrill cry

c)

  • Adverbs → 1, 2, 3
  • Prepositional phrases → 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9