Hawaii ____ 5,500 kilometres ___the west of Mexico. It is ____ place to spend your holiday! I'll be thinking of you while I ____ on the beach next week.
- lays/in/such an exotic/will be lying
- lies/to/so exotic a/am lying
- lies/in/such an exotic/am laying
- is lying/ toward/a such exotic/lie
Pentru poziția geografică se folosește lie (Hawaii lies), to the west of; „un loc atât de exotic” = so exotic a place; o acțiune în desfășurare în viitor, într-o temporală, se redă prin prezentul continuu: while I am lying on the beach.Erica always works ____; that's why she has ____ any free time these days.
- hard/hardly
- hardly/hardly
- hard/hard
- hardly/hard
Works hard (= din greu); hardly (= aproape deloc): she has hardly any free time.My father enjoys ____ very good health. Actually, he ____a journey around the world once he ___ mother ____ joining him.
- a/considers taking/will convince /of
- -/is considering to do/talks/in
- a/is considering to have/persuades/into
- -/is considering making/has talked/into
Enjoy good health (fără articol), consider + gerunziu (is considering making a journey), în temporala cu once nu se folosește viitorul (has talked), iar talk somebody into doing something.Spera că nimeni nu se va întreba de ce purtătorul de cuvânt nu dă detalii despre crima comisă pe Podul Londrei.
- She was hoping that nobody will wander why the spokeperson doesn't give detailed information about the murder committed on The London Bridge.
- She hoped that nobody would wander why the spokesperson didn't give chapter and verse on the crime comitted on London Bridge.
- She was hoping that nobody would wonder why didn't the spokesperson enlarge upon the homicide committed on The London Bridge.
- She hoped that nobody would wonder why the spokesperson didn't enlarge on the manslaughter committed on London Bridge.
După She hoped se face concordanța (would wonder, didn't enlarge on), întrebarea indirectă are topică directă (why the spokesperson didn't…) și se scrie London Bridge fără articol. Celelalte variante au greșeli (wander, will, why didn't the spokesperson, comitted).Dacă n-ar fi fost memoria lui înșelătoare, n-aș mai fi pierdut timp să-i explic că oricare dintre cele două picturi merită să fie cumpărată.
- If it hadn't been for his treasonable memory, I wouldn't have wasted time to explain to him that either of the two paintings were worth buying.
- But for his treacherous memory, I shouldn't have spent time explaining to him that any of the two paintings was worth to buy.
- If it hadn't been for his treacherous memory, I wouldn't have wasted time explaining to him that either of the two paintings was worth buying.
- Hadn't it been for his treasonable memory, I shouldn't have wasted time explaining him that any of the two pictures was worth to buy.
If it hadn't been for + memorie treacherous (înșelătoare), waste time explaining, either of the two paintings was worth buying (either cere singularul; worth + gerunziu).