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The key answer of exercise 5

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 9.1 - Giant leaps for the textbook Speakout Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
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  3. Listen again and repeat. How are had, hadn’t, would and wouldn’t have pronounced in fast speech?

Answer

a)

  1. would have remained; hadn't explored
  2. had been found; wouldn't have crashed
  3. would have been; hadn't discovered
  4. hadn't met; wouldn't have formed
  5. wouldn't have been; hadn't invented
  6. hadn't opened; would have remained

c)

  • would have → /'wʊdəv/
  • hadn't → /hædn/
  • had → /əd/
  • wouldn't have → /'wʊdəntəv/