1. No sooner had I finished speaking/talking than Molly
jumped up/sprang up and ran out of the room./Hardly/Scarcely
had I finished speaking/talking when Molly jumped up/sprang
up and ran out of the room.
2. Never before have I heard such nonsense!
3. She opened the box and out jumped the mouse.
4.Not a single word did she say about the forthcoming
engagement.
5. It was Jenny who baked the cake, not I (It was Jenny who
baked the cake, not me).
6. “Quiet Flows the Don” is a novel by M. Sholokhov about
Cossacks.
7. It was Monica he wanted to see and not her parents.
8. Do have patience with the children./Do be patient with
the children. And do forget about all their pranks!
9. On and on went the caravan across the desert.
10. “Tender is the Night” is the novel which/that made Scott
Fitzgerald famous.
11. I do understand how important It is lor all of us!
12. Were it not so important for you, It wouldn’t have
touched you to the quick/got you on the raw.
13. You look quite satisfied. - That’s just how I feel.
14. Generous was his gratitude!
15. What really staggered/stunned me was my friends’ reaction
to my success.
Exercise79, p. 414
1. Only in the car did I manage to speak with him.
2. From behind the hills came the whispers of the sea.
3. Never have I seen a face so happy, sweet and radiant.
4. Little did she care for her words.
5. So great was her grief that I didn’t know how to comfort
her.
6. From the back of the room came a timid voice.
7. No sooner had he finished one job, than he was given
another.
8. Not only is she beautiful, but talented as well,
9. Little does he realize what a fool he is making of himself.
10. Of this accident I couldn’t speak to my mother.
11. Only once did he meet his match in tennis.
12. Many a time did he watch her sitting like that.
13. Now was the moment to act.
14. Down he fell.
15. Up went the rocket.