Answer for exercise 8
The solution for exercise 8 in chapter 3.1 - And the moral is ... of Speakout Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book by Frances Eales and Steve Oakes
Question
Read the story again and answer the questions.
Answer
- The writer puts the same saying (or a version of it) in both the first and last paragraphs.
- Paragraph 1 → past simple, past perfect simple, past perfect continuous, past continuous
- Paragraphs 2 and 3 → all four past forms are used but the past simple is the dominant form in the section.
- The writer expresses his feelings all through the story by using adverbs such as stupidly and by sometimes simply saying how he felt, e.g. I was nervous or his physical sensations, my mouth was so dry I couldn't speak.
- He says what he learnt in the last paragraph.