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The example is given.
a) Have you dealt with the problem? Yes, the problem has been
dealt with.
b) Has someone sent for the doctor?
c) Has anyone paid for these goods?
d) Have we kept to the rules?
e) Did anyone turn off all the lights?
f) Did someone give out the exercise books?
g) Did you write down what he said?
h) Have they approved of the plan?
i) Is anyone looking after the children?
j) Have you filed away the documents?
In order not to get bored of doing all these exercises you may switch to reading a
short enjoyable text. After you’ve read it, try to give a brief rendering paying
attention to the facts you’ve never known before.
FAX-MAD NEW YORKERS
Not so long ago the typical New York sign-off used to be “have a nice day.” It’s
fast being replaced by a new one “What’s your fax number?” From Tokyo to
London and farther to Los Angeles the craze of the facsimile machine is
sweeping the world, but no city seems to have gone as fax mad as New York.
Radio stations, for example, are taking record requests by fax – the advantage is
that office workers can do it without the boss hearing them telephone.
To order lunch you can zap off a completed “le fax menu” to your favorite
restaurant. If you are looking for a partner for the evening you fax your needs to
a fax-dating service. Down in Greenwich Village there are even artists busy
developing the genre of fax art. Half the telephone calls from New York to
Japan are between fax machines. This being New York, you can also, of course,
use the machine to communicate with your “shrink” for some fax therapy.
While rendering the text, it would be a good idea to use such linking phrases as:
according to the article; no wonder that; isn’t it amazing that; it was all news to
me; anyway; whatever is; no doubt that; I’m sure; therefore; etc.
Do you know all the cases where you’d rather use infinitive instead of gerund or
vise verse?
Supply the correct verb form. Think over the usage of - ing form or to+inf.
a) Can’t you see I’m busy (get) the dinner ready?
b) It’s difficult (find) work in some rural areas.
c) It isn’t easy (speak) in public.
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