Answer — Exercise 6
5.3 - In good company·New Total English Advanced - Students' Book
Question
- Read the article on page 70 again. What purpose do the underline sentence adverbials serve?
- Choose the correct options in rules A and B in the Active grammar box.
- Complete the table in the Active grammar box with the underlined sentence adverbials from the article.
Réponse
a) Sentence adverbials can be used to make a comment (often an opinion) about the subject.
b)
- beginning
- comma
c)
- Unexpected points → surprisingly enough; believe it or not
- Generalisations → by and large; broadly speaking
- How something appears → seemingly; apparently
- Contrast → however; on the other hand
- Reflection on the past → looking back; with hindsight
- Partial agreement → to a certain extent; up to a point