The key to exercise solutions in chapter 10.2 for the textbook Speakout Advanced - Workbook with authors Antonia Clare, J. J. Wilson and Lindsay White from Pearson Education
Question
Look at the following statements about life-changing events. Three are grammatically correct. Which ones?
Add pairs of words from the box to the statements above so that they all become (or remain) grammatically correct.
Answer
a)
3, 4 and 7 are grammatically correct.
b)
... Being a mother is every bit as wonderful as ...
... my troubles were nowhere near as bad as I'd thought.
It's becoming more and more difficult ...
... I was a lot closer to him ...
... The longer I stayed, the more I realised it wasn't for me.