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Unit 4

Suggested answers:
1 style situation people 4 extremely mainly frequently
2 mean be know 5 of by for
3 informal colloquial suitable
Obviously your answers here depend on how you answered 4.1. If you chose the same words as
we did, then your answers to 4.2 will be as follows:
style C situation C people U (Remember that it needs a plural verb.)
mean T, R be IT, IR know T, IR

-ing form 1 past participle 1
infinitive
defining defined
meaning meant
write write writing written

1 root - form prefix - in suffix - a1
2 formal
3 casual e.g. of dress
4 form, formality, formless, deform, reform, reformation and so on.
5 a) an informal occasion
b) We use a more informal kind of English when we speak than when we write.

dlable onomato~ia ~ister colbial pehative collo~ion -ma
semi-don awtrophe (note that there are four syllables in apostrophe) wen
exclamation mark -tion mark Mets inwed commas witals

1 converse 2 lavatory 3 man 4 tolerate 5 violin
1 terrorist 2 skinny 3 wordy 4 mean 5 cunning 6 extravagant

Some possible answers:
countable or abstract noun; unfamiliar or polysyllabic word;
colloquial expression or colloquial language.

( ) brackets ? question mark ' apostrophe
; semi-colon - dash - hyphen
, comma " 9, inverted commas

Unit 5

1 All the words are possible. Some people feel that sofa and couch are a bit 'lower class', and
that settee is the so-called 'refined, middle-class' word. Divan could also be used, but its
normal British English meaning is a kind of bed with a very thick base. It can also, less
commonly, mean a kind of sofa with no back or arms.
2 Luxury most typically collocates with yacht, though ketch (a double-masted sailing ship)
- -
would also be possible. A dinghy is a very small, open boat, hardly suitable for going around
the world. sail& boat sounds jist too &neral here, since it covers all types of boats with sails.

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