Grammar
Change from active to passive voice: People should not leave bicycles unlocked.
Bicycles should not be left unlocked (by people).
After the heavy rains, the stream became [murky]; in fact, the water was so cloudy you couldn't see the bottom.
A) hazy B) bottomless C) clear
hazy
Don’t let the grass grow under your feet.
Keep moving.
The teacher canceled the class because she was sick.
called off
Subterranean is to _____as airborne is to eagle.
worm, fly, dinosaur
Worm
By the eighteenth century, English shipping _____ as efficient as the Dutch. (become)
had become
What is the difference between “habit” and “custom”?
Habit belongs to the individual.
Custom belong to a society or country.
Hit the sack
Go to bed
What is "add up"?
To seem reasonably or likely.
Example : Watson claimed he was at home at the time of the murder, but policesaid his story didn't add up.
Complete with the correct preposition:
To take pride .....
To lose sight .....
To keep an eye ....
To be in charge ....
To take pride IN
To lose sight OF
To keep an eye ON
To be in charge OF
I ________ (park) my car when I realized I _______ (forget) my laptop at home.
I WAS PARKING my car when I realized I HAD FORGOTTEN my laptop at home.
It was ____ from her face that she was really upset.
a. blatant
b. apparent
c. shield
d. assessment
It was apparent from her face that she was really upset.
cool as a cucumber
This phrasal verb means to give someone a place to sleep.
put (someone) up
My boss said I should do some work on my French so I could take part in the meetings.
BRUSH
My boss encouraged __________ so I could take part in meetings.
ME TO BRUSH UP MY FRENCH
I didn’t know what to do until I saw what had happened.
Make an inversion of this sentence.
Not until I saw what had happened did I know what to do.
asking too many questions
(def)
a) incessant
b) subordinate
c) serene
d) ambiguous
e) inquisitive
inquisitive
a dog in the manger.
someone who keeps something that they do not want in orderto prevent someone else from getting it
to become interested in something again
get back into
Without Sandy, I would never have managed to find a house that suited me.
STILL
If it hadn’t __________ be looking for a suitable house.
BEEN FOR SANDY I WOULD STILL
He answered the judge's question as accurately as he could. ACCURATE He gave ____ as he could to the judge's question.
as accurate an answer
What do “i.e” and “e.g.” mean?
i.e - id est, e.g. - exempli gratia.
e.g. is used to introduce a few examples (for example), whereas i.e. means “in other words.”
you might as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb
said to mean that because the punishment for a bad action and an even worse one will be the same, you have no reason not to do the worse one
To chip in
to interrupt by adding a comment
Unbricking a kiln after a firing is like a person uncovering buried treasure.
Omit the underlined potion.
Illogical comparisons.