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UNIT
EXERCISES
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55.1 Which of these can also he expressed naturally as a noun + noun pattern or a noun + 's +
noun pattern* (A)

noun + preposition + noun noun + noun noun + 's + noun
1 wool from a lamb X Uunb's wool
2 a headline in a newspaper
3 a nest lived in by a bird
4 insurance for a car
5 a hole in a wall
6 the uniform worn by a nurse
7 a request for help
8 the wheel of a bicycle
9 the voice of a man
10 a cloth for drying dishes

55.2 Complete the sentences on the right with appropriate compound nouns related to the two-word
verbs used in the sentences on the left. (B)

1 The teacher told me off for handing in a Harry had a very strict ..!*l*!™S.i*)9... and
my homework late. was glad to move away from his parents,
2 The escaped prisoners crept into an b The children have a secret at
old barn and hid out until it got the bottom of the garden,
dark. c The engine fault was the latest of several
3 My mind flashed back to the time when in the development of the car.
I was living in Stockholm. d I was caught in a sudden and
4 She was born and brought up in central got soaked through,
London. e We received several that there
5 The rain was pouring down as we got would be an attempted break-out at the
out of the taxi. prison.
6 As I passed by her house, I could see f My father gave me a good for
people dancing in the front room. knocking down his prize roses,
7 The injury has set back his chances of g The man was leaning out of the window,
being fit to play in the final. shouting at in the street below.
8 The police were waiting for the thieves. h There are a number of in the
Someone must have tipped them off. film to the time before the robbery.

Try to guess the meaning of the underlined parts of these sentences from the context. (C)
1 He made a lot of pie-in-the-skv promises that I knew he wouldn't keep.
2 The actors gave a very run-of-the-mill performance, and the critics expressed their
disapproval in their reports the following day.
3 We went to a number of out-of-the-way places that few tourists had visited before.
4 My good-for-nothing brother just sat in front of the TV while I did all the ironing.
5 He lived a hand-to-mouth existence, surviving on just a few pounds a week.
6 Behind-the-scenes negotiations were going on between the diplomats, away from the
public eye.
7 She stayed quite calm and spoke in a matter-of-fact way about the attack.

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