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e) Trains in this country aren’t ever on time.
f) Jeff isn’t tall enough to be a policeman.
g) Speak up, I can’t hear what you are saying.
Think thoroughly over the following sentences. In what sentences would you
use “between” and where is “among” more preferable?
a) I’m at my best …… 7 and 11 in the morning.
b) …… the people I know there’s no one who sings as well as you do.
c) Is there a doctor …… the audience?
d) Don’t interfere! Let them sort it out …… themselves.
e) Where do you find all that spare time …… raising a family, writing a
book and holding down a full-time job?
f) I try very hard never to eat …… meals.
g) …… the four of them, the boys managed to collect 500 pounds for the
new nursing home.
h) I found the ticket stuck …… the pages of the book.
i) What do we find in common …… the major oil companies?
j) As an anthropologist, she specialized in finding tiny communities and
living ……them.
k) I think your application must have got lost …… our records.
Three of these sentences contain an extra word. Cross out the extra words where
necessary, and say why you have done so.
1 The specific management element in these mind-bending studies is
hard to isolate it.
2 Even although managers should be numerate (and many are so),
they don’t require skills in higher algebra; and many great
businesses have been created by men who all but count on their
fingers.
3 It is also full of clever fools who work out elaborate discounted
cash flow sums for to justify projects that a one-percenter would
laugh out of sight.
4 “ I buy things at one pound and sell them for two pounds and from
that 1% difference I make a living.”
Supply the right forms of the verbs “lie” and “lay” in these sentences.
a) He took off his glasses and …… them on the table.
b) I know it’s Sunday morning, but how long do you intend to …… in bed/
c) It’s now clear that one of the witnesses …… to the jury.
d) We’ll have to …… the case before the jury and let them decide.
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