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16 Ann said, 'Englishmen make good husbands because they are nearly always willing to help in the house.'

17 Mary answered, 'I like men to be useful but I don't like them to be too domesticated. I prefer them to keep out of the kitchen altogether. Men look silly in aprons anyway.'

18 Motoring report: The new Rolls Royce runs so quietly that all you can hear is the ticking of the clock. Managing director of the Rolls Royce company: In that case we'll have to do something about the clock.

19 'I don't know what to do with all my plums. I suppose I'll have to make jam. The trouble is that none of us eats jam,' she said.

20 'We like working on Sundays because we get double pay,' explained the builders.

21 He said, 'I am quite a good cook and I do all my own washing and mending too.'

22 'You can keep that one if you like, Joan,' he said. 'I've got plenty of others.'

23 'I'm going fishing with mother this afternoon,' said the small boy, 'and we are going into the garden now to dig for worms.' (Omit now).

24 'You've got my umbrella,' I said crossly. 'Yours is in your bedroom.'

25 'I know exactly what they said,' the private detective explained to his client, 'because I bugged their phone.' 

26'I'll sit up till she comes in, but I hope she won't be late,' he said.

27 'If you give me some wire, I'll hang that picture for you,' said my cousin. 

28'I have a Turkish bath occasionally, but it doesn't seem to make any difference to my weight,' she said

29 'This is quite a good model, madam. I use one of these myself,' said the salesman.

30 'My new house is supposed to be haunted, but so far I haven't seen any ghosts,' she said.

31 The advertisement said, 'If you answer the questions correctly you may win £100.'

32 'If I press my ear against the wall, I can hear what the people in the next flat are saying,' he said.

Answer 1

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16. Ann said that Englishmen made good husbands because they were nearly always willing to help in the house

17. Mary answered that she liked men to be useful but she didn't like them to be too domesticated. She told us that she prefered them to keep out of the kitchen altogether. She also said men looked silly in aprons anyway

18. Motoring report said that the new Rolls Royce ran so quietly that all we could hear was the ticking of the clock

Managing director of the Rolls Royce company said that in that case they would have to do something about the clock

19. A girl said she didn't know what to do with all her plums. She supposed she would have to make jam. The trouble was that none of them ate jam

20. The builders explained that they liked working on Sundays because they got double pay

21. I said I was quite a good cook and I did all my own washing and mending too

22. He said Joan could keep that one if she liked. He also said he had got plenty of others

23. The small boy said that he was going fishing with his mother that afternoon. He also said they were going into the garden then to dig for worms

24. I said they had got my umbrella and theirs is in their bedroom

25. The private detective explained to his client that they knew exactly what they had said because he had bugged their phone

26. He said he would sit up till she came in, but he hoped that she wouldn't be late

27. My cousin said if I gave him some wire he would hang that picture for me

28. She said she had a Turkish bath occasionally, but it didn't seem to make her difference to her weight 

29. The salesman said it was quite a good model and he used one himself

30. She said her new house was supposed to be haunted, but so far she hadn't seen any ghosts

31. The advertisement said if we answered the questions correctly we might win £100

32. He said if he pressed his ear against the wall, he could hear what the people in the next flat were saying