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1. You do not have to pay for secondary education inBritain.
Secondary education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2. I’m always nervous when I face a lot of people.
Facing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3. By the time we arrive the other guests will have already started dinner.
The other guests will start . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4. I would like the school holidays to be longer.
I wish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5. He is to blame for his mistakes. This is very necessary.
It . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6. He must pass his intermediate level English examination. That was obligatory.
It . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
7. The mother came and lived with them to take care of their children. That was their- request.
It . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8. Isabel: “You can’t borrow my pen, Robert”.
Isabel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
9. You lied to him, which was wrong.
You . . . . . . . . . .
10. I wouldn’t do anything for you.
There’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
11. Yogurt is supposed to be good for you.
Yogurt is supposed to do . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
12. Given fair warning, I could have avoided that date.
If you had told me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
13. Please don’t say things like that.
I wish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
14. It would have been a superb weekend if it hadn’t been for the weather.
But . . . . . . . . . . .
15. They thought that he was waiting for a message.
He . . . . . . . . . . . .
1. It was wrong of you to scare your little brother like that.
=>You oughtn’t to scare your little brother like that.
2. The idea no longer interests her.
=> She has gone off the idea
3. It would have been a superb weekend if the weather had been better.
=>But for the better weather, It would have been a superb weekend
4. The news was so good that she smiled happily.
=>Such was good news that she smiled happily.
5. The teacher started to write the lesson plan right after he returned home.
=>Hardly had the teacher returned home did he start to write the lesson plan