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Unit 73

1 toowit toowoo 3 woof 5 meow
2 baa 4 oink 6 cockadoodledoo

lcrowing 2mooing 3 barked 4neighing 5wereclucking 6purring
You would probably be unhappy to be called any of the adjectives in D except perhaps dogged.

1 true
2 true
3 false - hoot, when used about people, is normally followed by the phrase 'with laughter'.
4 false - if singing is called caterwauling, it must be very discordant and unpleasant to the ear.
5 true
6 false -grunting at someone suggests a lack of interest in that person.

Possible sentences:
2 As soon as she heard the phone, she flew across the room to answer it.
3 I learnt to swim when I was about seven years old.
4 The hillside was covered in loose stones and the walkers slithered uncertainly down the slope.
5 He hopped across the room to avoid putting any weight on his painful ankle.
6 The little children happily trotted off to school.
7 1'11 have to gallop through my work if I'm going to get it done on time.
1 puppy or puppies (a spaniel is a kind of dog)
2 kittens (a tom is a male cat and a Siamese is a kind of cat)
3 cub(s) (polar bears like all other bears have cubs)
4 lambs (wool comes from sheep)
5 ducklings (the verb hatched makes it clear that the sentence is talking about a creature coming
from an egg, and swim makes it clear that a water-bird is being described, rather than a hen,
for example.)

Unit 74

1 pie 2 ocean 3 clanger 4 plate 5 handle 6 block 7 shot
1 springs to mind 3 just goes to show 5 leaves a lot to be desired
2 flies in the face of 4 're sitting pretty

Possible groupings:
be in a fix (be in troublelhave a serious problem), be up to it (be capable of something), be out of
sorts (be unwell) all have in common the verb be, but also the fact that they are followed by
prepositional phrases.
child's play (very easy) and a fool's errand (a wastedlpointless journey to get something) are both
's idioms. (See Unit 81 for more of these.)
hold your tongue (be silent), hold your horses (wait before actinglspeaking) both of course
contain hold, but hold your tongue could also go with stay mum (be silent) because they are very
close in meaning. The difference is that hold your tongue is often used in aggressive commands,
e.g. Hold your tongue, you! (shut up!).
rough and ready (basic I lacking in comfort), odds and ends (small items difficult to group along
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with others). give or take (as in 'It'll cost £700. give or take £50'. meaning between £650 and
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£750 pounds approximately) are all binomials (phrases joined by and, but, or; see Unit 77).

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