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68.4 Sample letter:

DearEditor,

With reference to thearticleinyournewspaperabouttheclosureofNewtonHospital,Iwouldlike
toexpressmystrongoppositiontotheproposal,forthefollowingreasons.Firstly,thenearestother
hospitalis50kilometresaway.Secondly,200peopleworkatthehospitalandtheywilllosetheir
jobsandthewholeregionwillsuffer,thatistosaythehospitalmakesanimportantcontributionto
thelocaleconomy.Finally,itistheonlyhospitalintheregionwithaspecialcancerunit.Butleaving
asidetheeconomicandmedicalquestions,thehospitalisobviouslybeingclosedforpolitical
reasons,andthisisquitewrong.

To sum up,theclosureofourhospitalwouldbeadisasterbothforthepeopleandfortheeconomy
ofthisregion.

Yourssincerely,

AnnaGreen

Unit 69

69.1 2 awordinedgeways 4 makeheadortailof
3 wrongendofthestick 5 down

69.2 2 talkrubbish 5 toputitinanutshell

3 starttheballrolling 6 getholdofthewrongendofthestick
4 getto/cometothepoint

69.3 2 talk 3 talking 4 talking 5 winded 6 sense 7 shop 8 back

Unit 70
70.1 2 coathanger 3 pencilsharpener 4 projector 5 tinopener/canopener

70.2 2 thing 3 personorthing 4 thing 5 personorthing 6 person 7 person 8 person

70.3 2 awindscreenwiper
3 aclassicalviolinist
4 aprofessionalphotographer(notethestresschange:photographbutphotographer)
5 anamateuractor
6 apayee
7 adishwasher
8 anorgandonor
9 anaddressee

70.4 2 admission 4 productive 6 childhood 8 friendship

3 laziness 5 readable 7 washable
70.5
noun verb adjective
eat edible

fury furious
beautify beautiful

scarcity scarce
refusal refuse

modernise modern
forgetfulness forget forgetful

action* act active
* The noun act exists (without a suffix) in expressions such as an Act of Parliament
(i.e. a new law), or for talking about an act of a play (i.e. a section of the play).

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