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Grammar exercises

EEI Write a new sentence with a similar meaning to the original. Emphasise the information underlined
using an it-cleft or a wh-cleft at the beginning of the sentence. Sometimes both are possible.

1 I want you to hold the cat tightly while I out on this collar.
She announced she was going to join the air force at her 18th birthday party.
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A: So how did you get the car out of the mud?
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B: We asked a farmer to gull us out with his tractor.
k What do you thinks wrong with the car?
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B: The battery could be flat.
This huge bunch of flowers arrived for me this morning. I don't know who sent them.
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6 My parents must have given Wei my telephone number.
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The research shows a link between salt intake and rates of heart disease.
His nervous laugh made me think he was lying.
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eg Match the sentence halves. Write new sentences with a similar meaning starting Should ...,

Had ... or Were....
1 If a she might have made a full recovery.
you require
further details,
2 If today's match has to be postponed, b the insurance covers a full refund.
3 If anyone had been looking at Maria when c please contact our public information
the police arrived, office.
4 If taxes were to be increased further, d there would be a huge public outcry.
5 If the doctors had operated sooner, e we would not have begun the climb.
it will be replayed next week.
6 If I were president, I
7 If your flight is cancelled, g they would have noticed the expression
of panic on her face.
8 If heavy snow had been forecast,
h I would introduce three-day weekends.
1+ c Should- you require further demus, please contact our publication information office.
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