Cover of the textbook Speakout Advanced - Workbook

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 8.1 for the textbook Speakout Advanced - Workbook with authors Antonia Clare, J. J. Wilson and Lindsay White from Pearson Education

Question

Rewrite the sentences so that they have a similar meaning. Use the prompts.

Answer

  1. I was supposed to go to the concert but I forgot my ticket.
  2. I was about to leave the office when the phone rang.
  3. You weren't supposed to tell her the secret!
  4. We were meant to pay in advance.
  5. I was to have become a doctor but I became a singer instead!
  6. You were to be at the checkpoint at exactly 5a.m.