FINAL HOOKS 1

EXERCISE 26(A)

I write with a pen but I had some pain in my fingers.

I saw him open a plain brown envelope.

She put the pieces of fish bone in the food waste bin.

They plan to take the sixteen ten train to the town.

I have done my exercise going up and down nineteen stairs.

She was trying to join all the pieces of chain together.

I came across a rare coin in an old tin can.

The staff are keen to be gone at the end of the day.

I have grown used to going to The* Crown pub for lunch.

The robber used a gun to gain entry to the town bank.

Dan is going to have to run as it has started to rain heavily.

One railway engine is large and the other one is small.

* Not using Tick The, as it is part of a name

He has won the race and is keen to win again next time.

The old hen is in the coop and the young hen is in the yard.

As he was talking, all the guests began to yawn.

You must retain the receipt if you wish to change the item.

Don said they had asked the judge to pardon them.

The light shower of rain was quite sudden.

The rain came down heavily out of the stormy sky.

The coin was hidden in a small wooden box.

I have taken the pack of chicken into the kitchen.

We shall begin our trek across this barren terrain.

Everyone has a copy of the minutes and no-one is missing.

All the runners wanted to be winners in this race.

She said she thought they were speaking a foreign language.

The foreigners are tourists who wish to see the sights.

We shall be opening a new chain of stores in this city.

I am training to be a runner in the next charity race.

I saw the boys chaining the bikes to the park railings.

I shall be joining the staff at the beginning of the month.

Ben and Dan both began running down the street.

The sky is cloudy and I think it will begin raining soon.

He was glad to be on the winning team at last.

The council is twinning our town with one in Spain.

If you are honing a knife, you are giving it a cutting edge.

Mr Brown asked the kids to stop yawning all the time.

EXERCISE 26(B)

We had plenty of exercise but our muscles were painful.

The judge felt he had to punish the thief severely.

I saw one red pansy among the yellow pansies.

Ken chose the ball that was the most bouncy.

The state of the economy has made many job vacancies.

We have room in the granary for one hundred bales.

The class had to pronounce all the names of the planets.

They pronounced the names of the planetary bodies.

She printed a list of all the trees they had planted.

He drank brandy and not some other blended mix.

We used a branded drill but it soon became blunted.

He had a chronic illness and was sent to the clinic.

Ben and Ken suddenly began to run out of the park.

They said that the clinic visit last week was quite painless.

The sheep began to panic when the dog ran into the field.

It was quite a tonic to meet with you in the club.

Her new shoes began to pinch as they were too small.

They are digging a long trench along the side of the road.

He brought them a big bunch of red and yellow roses.

They will have to cut down the broken branch of the tree.

It is running a big risk to join in the drinking binge.

We heard the ten swimmers plunge into the pool.

We have quite a wide range of items in our spring sale.

The doctor used a syringe to give him the drug.

She has made sixteen dainty sponge cakes for the party.

My dentist has given me some good advice on dental care.

I will begin my time at the school on the tenth of this month.

The ten tourists were all speaking the Danish language.

A bounty is money given for catching a robber.

In the toy shop was a bendy snake made of rubber.

EXERCISE 26(C)

I was born in a Danish town in the far south.

They will burn the wood to make a large fire.

They will be turning the shed into a barn for the sheep.

We shall return to our home on the western coast.

In the class they will learn how to make modern clothes.

The field was full of ripe corn ready to be cut.

We are certainly going to mourn the loss of our dog.

I wish to buy some more yarn so I can begin to knit.

I have to darn the socks which are full of holes.

The flame on the gas burner was a blue colour.

He worked as a wood turner when he was younger.

All the tourists in that city seemed to be westerners.

I am a keen learner of all the ways to write faster.

On the farm they were burning the stubble in the fields.

The leaves are now turning all shades of yellow and brown.

We are learning how to write things in a different way.

I shall rise early in the morning so that I can begin work.

The kids were yearning to open all the birthday presents.

EXERCISE 26(D)

She said it would be fine for me to phone her at eleven.

I often use hand cream to soften my skin.

We have had no rain and even the thin vine is turning brown.

I rose at seven and then began learning the words.

By eleven, I plan to finish seven pages of the manual.

The headmaster is going to assign us a new teacher.

The sun is going to shine all day in the western zones.

John has now shown us how to use the machine.

I saw a tall man walking down the main road.

We shall remain in the main office until nine tonight.

None of these facts were known at the time.

We have one lone worker who wishes to earn extra.

It says on the last line that loans take a month to process.

She told the boys not to lean on the broken iron door.

The old urn was bought by a quite stern young man.

Please arrange the apples and oranges in the brown bowl.

The minute they finish the lesson, the kids all vanish.

The chef began to bake some fancy cakes.

The officer was thinking of fining the man in the delivery van.

All this heavy rain is softening the soil for the crops.

I will be phoning you about the loan at six this evening.

I am assigning you the task of thinning all the tree seedlings.

I have now put all the zoning marks on the map.

They will be manning the phones for the remaining hours.

It was quite demeaning for them to be earning so little.

The sun is shining, now that the rain has finally stopped.

In this fine rain they will certainly be shunning the beach.

I will be machining a seam down the side of the coat.

I will also attach a lining which goes down to the hem.

They were leaning on the table as they were phoning home.

In the town hall we saw a genuine Roman urn.

I am genuinely pleased that you now have that new post.

We shall pursue our aim of starting a new business.

Pursuant to your call today, we now have the papers ready.

They fired one hundred brown pots and bowls in the kiln.

I spoke to Mr Milne about coming down to visit next week.

EXERCISE 26(E)

I took a pen and drew a circle the size of a brass penny.

The dog held the bone in its bony jaws.

When I tapped the tin, it made a tinny sound.

On the train I met our new office trainee.

Dan has gone into town to meet his school mate Danny.

The chain I bought for the bike was made in China.

John was in the same class as his cousin Johnny.

His name is Ken but his teacher calls him Kenny.

My granny used to buy her grain at the farm.

We had fun in the play zone, it was funny and zany.

I always shine my shoes and keep them clean and shiny.

These men are going to take many weeks to do that job.

To send a rocket to the moon takes a lot of money.

Jean and Nan are now working as nannies in town.

Len has an older cousin whose name is Lenny.

Ernie likes to earn cash and Winnie likes to win prizes.

It is going to rain today, the first of many rainy days.

At the farm I bought grain for the hen and a jar of honey.

EXERCISE 26(F)

I am writing some notes to add to what I have written.

In the storm they had trouble righting the yacht.

The tomatoes in the box were all rotten.

My daily routine was to rise at six every morning.

One woman was sitting and two women were waiting.

The best human is one who does humane things.

Our general way of working has been to start quite early.

We are generally in the office Monday to Wednesday.

The prices of the goods are within our usual budget.

We lived in a town in the southern part of the county.

The town they used to live in was in the northern part.

It is my opinion that they will do a satisfactory job.

He says it is a mechanical problem with the boiler.

They are quite mechanically minded so they will solve it.

We have had some large financial issues at the firm.

We believe that the firm is financially secure for now.

We are looking to our bank for extra finance.

The bank may be able to help us in our finances.

EXERCISE 26(G)

The men had been having problems with the machine.

We have been listening to the rain falling all day.

I have never been to visit that southern city.

This job pays more than my other one did.

This new machine is much better than the old one.

Her new house is much larger than the flat she was living in.

The new phone was smaller than the one they sold.

Dan said that the pay was much higher than in his old job.

We are going to the club on our own for an hour.

You will have to finish writing the report on your own.

At last I will be buying a home of my own.

It will be mine as I will pay the whole cost.

He asked to be told what was going on in the office.

When I finish shopping, I will be going on to the club.

He told the staff to carry on working until five o’clock.

The people carried on walking along the main road.

We shall be taking on some work in that office building.

The boat was taking on water fairly rapidly.

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