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Exercises

70.1 Choose the verb which best fits the meaning of the sentences.
Example: 'I love YOU,' he murmured.
1 'It was I who broke the vase,' he ..................... .. ........
2 'I am the cleverest person in the class,' the little boy ..................................
3 'Look, there's a mouse over there!' he ..................................
4 'I'll stop your pocket money if you don't behave,' she ..................................
5 'I d-d-d-did it,' he ..................................
6 'Please, please, help me,' he ..................................
7 'This hotel is filthy,' she ..................................
8 'Go on, Jim, try harder,' he ...............................

Change the sentences above into reported speech using the same verbs.
Example: He murmured that he loved her

Add the appropriate adjectives and nouns to the table below.

adverb adjective noun

angrily ................................................. .................................................
furiously ....................... .. .. ............... .................................................
..
bitterly ................................................. .................................................
miserably ................................ .. ............ .................................................
cheerfully ................... ... ..................... .................................................
gratefully ........................ .. .................................................
................
anxiously ............................................... .................................................

The answers to the following questions are all words which are from the same root as the
verbs on the page opposite.
Example: How do you describe a person who boasts a lot? boastful
What do you call:
1 what you make when you threaten? 3 what you make when you object?
2 what you make when you complain? 4 a person who asks for money on the streets?
How do you describe:
5 someone who insists a lot? 6 someone who argues a lot?

Look at the verbs in the table in B and answer the following quiz.
1 Which verbs could replace & in the sentence 'She asked me to dance with her' without
changing the grammar of the sentence?
2 Which prepositions usually follow a) object b) insist c) complain?
3 Which verb could grammatically replace promise in 'He promised to do it'?
4 Which of the verbs can be followed by 'that' and a clause?
5 Find a synonym for each of the six verbs in the fourth column of the table.

Write a sentence to match each of the eight adverbs listed at the end of C.
Example: Excitedly. 'Let's go at once,'she said excitedly.

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