A.1. He belongs to a new trend in linguistics/His ideas are in
keeping with a new theory in linguistics. 2. I have known it
since I was a child/a teenager. 3. Evidently the boy was beaten
either by his schoolmates or by someone he met on the way
home from school. 4. At eighteen Andrew found himself alone,
a first-year student at St. Andrew University. The University gave
him forty pounds a year, and that was his only source of
income. 5. After dinner there is a period ofrecreation before
afternoon classes, 6. When (he was) a child he was a bad
pupil/his teachers were dissatisfied with his progress/his teachers
didn’t think much ofhim and as a rule gave him bad marks.
7. Rain’s arrival created a stir. The eyes of all the teachers and
pupils were turned away from the cricket field. 8. I was in a better
position ofcourse, because I knew everybody there/Of
course, I had the advantage ofknowing everybody there/I was
one-up, ofcourse, because I knew everybody there. 9. They
profited by our disadvantages and did it with remarkable speed.
10. It was obvious that she was far better than the other teachers/
that she outshone the other teachers. 11. Because one man
agrees that we (they, you) have been defeated (Because one
man acknowledges defeat/having been defeated/being defeated,
it doesn’t mean that everybody else does. 12. Sam was taken
into his master’s confidence. 13. I tried to spare you. In all fairness
you must acknowledge that I did. 14. The fascists devastated/
ravaged/destroyed many towns and villages. 15. Too much
stuff is thrown away in the house. 16 . Caroline had foolishly
spent/squandered her life on being hopelessly devoted to
a man who did not deserve it. 17. She looked at the girl and
knew well that argument or reason would be lost on her/that
there would be no point in using argument ofreason. 18. He is
Russian to the core/He is every inch a Russian/He is Russian
through and through. 19. He said he would help us but didn’t
do anything/but didn’t lift a finger/but didn’t keep his
word/but broke his promise/but went back on his word.
20. I will keep my word (promise)/1 shall not break my word
(promise). 21. Can you say the alphabet not from A to 2 but vice
versa? 22. Why did you say the alphabet not from A to 2 but
from Z to A? 23. Why did you hold back/conceal the fact?
24. I hope you will support my plan. 25. She always tries/She
always does her best not to attract attention.
B. 1. We need extra help, I think. 2. Haven’t I done all that
was demanded ofme/all that I was supposed (expected) to
do? 3. Everyone must obey the law. 4. I’m sure documents must
be produced there. 5. Anyway you needn’t see/don’t need to
see them again. 6. She had an infinite capacity for patience
when patience was needed. 7. It would take two hours to
assemble everybody. 8. The neighbour heard the little girl call
the woman “mother”/address the woman as “mother”. 9. What
I have to say concerns all ofyou. 10. Historians date the fall of
Rome to/from 410 A.D./Historians say that Rome fell in 410.
11. He believed the cause of his depressions was the illness he
had had when he was a child/He ascribed/put down his
depressions to his childhood illness. 12. All the parts are connected
to each other. 13. You can give the landlord my respect,
if you like, and tell him I hope he doesn’t fly offthe handle as
often as he used to. 14. Among the excellent and decided characteristics
of General Fesmond’s wife, gentleness was less obvious
than the rest. 15. If Charles had inherited any of the quail-
ties of the stern, fearless, irascible soldier who had been his
lather... 16. Your younger son shows (up) great intelligence.
17. He proudly showed/demonstrated the variegated smears
of paint on his heavy dressing gown. 18. The old man was insa-
tiably curious about the galleries and the painters who exhibited
in them. 19. He is quite a nice fellow. 20. He has always
been nice to me. 21. Salvia had not the delicacy to show even
a moment ofhesitation.