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d) I don’t intend to answer this letter. (expect the boss)………
e) I don’t want to speak to him. (suppose him)………
f) I’m not going to remind him of his commitment. (I’d prefer the
judge)………
g) I don’t intend to move out of this flat. (I expect the neighbor)………
In the following exercise you are offered to practise Passive Voice a little. Put
all these sentences into the passive. In one of them two versions of the passive
are possible.
a) They described him to me.
b) They explained the situation to me.
c) They entrusted the money to her.
d) They have mentioned the case to me.
e) They are reporting the matter to the police.
f) They have already said something to him.
g) They suggested an alternative idea to him.
Read the text ahead in which you will come across a few unknown words. Look
them up in a dictionary and try to memorize.
Many years later, in 1952, at a cocktail party in Hollywood, I was introduced
to Charlie Chaplin. He took me aside and began to talk about his boyhood in
London when he used to see Tree’s productions from the gallery at His
Majesty’s. For some reason we talked about Eleonora Duse. Chaplin described
an occasion on which he saw her act. He began to imitate the actor who had
appeared that night with Duse. He whipped out a chair and sat astride it and
began to jabber bogus Italian. In a brilliant mime he showed how the actor was
enthralling the audience with a long speech when suddenly the curtains behind
began to move and a little old lady came out very quietly and glided across the
stage and put her hands towards the fire. Duse. And at this point the poor actor
who had seemed so remarkable a moment before was completely blotted out.
Try to look for the words which have the same meaning with: to blot out; to
jabber; to enthrall; to imitate; to whip out; to glide.
By this time you must have learned that the words “hard” and “hardly” are
completely different and can’t be interchangeable. In the following sentences
you are to use “hardly”.
a) I was so moved, I couldn’t speak.
b) But that isn’t what I wanted.
c) You don’t really know Shakespeare.
d) She isn’t the person for the job.
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