Answer — Exercise 5
5.2·Speakout Advanced Plus - Workbook
Question
- Read the description. When do you think the description occurs? Why?
- Rewrite the underlined phrases in the description using fronting.
- 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)
- Steadily we climbed
- Urgently, Xeno scrambled up the slope, ignoring our warnings of loose rock and steep drops.
- and suddenly, we were in a clearing
- From the hillside jutted an outcrop of rock, offering
- Looking down from our vantage point, we saw
- Standing on the edge of the desert was a large skeletal building.
- In the harsh light the burnished roof gleamed and looked like a candle
- Ahead of them, was a great heap of machinery
- From among the rocks behind us carne a shrill cry
c)
- Adverbs → 1, 2, 3
- Prepositional phrases → 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9