Give a more elegant
and economical way
of saying the prompt.
REPEAT OUT LOUD
THE ANSWER GIVEN
REPEAT the exercise .....
- tomorrow
- in two days time
- in four days time
- in eight days time
... or until you can do it perfectly and instantly ...
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Mastering this will make your English
more elegant and authentic. Like many
things, it is easy with some practice -
for which there is no known substitute.
a girl who is six years old is ...
... a ???????????
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a girl who is six years old is ...
... a six-year-old girl
Please note that there is no 's' on 'years'!
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1A
a suite of
furniture comprising
three pieces is ...
... a ????????????
used to refer to a sofa and two armchairs
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2
a suite of
furniture comprising
three pieces is ...
... a three-piece suite
used to refer to a sofa and two armchairs
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2A
a meeting which lasts two hours is ...
... a ???????????
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3
a meeting which lasts two hours is ...
... a two-hour meeting
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3A
a tortoise which is one hundred years old ...
is ... ???????????
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4
a tortoise which is one hundred years old ...
... isa one-hundred-year-old tortoise
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4A
We waited for ten minutes.
We had ????????????
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5
We waited for ten minutes.
We had a ten-minute wait.
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5A
The conference lasted three days.
It was ????????????
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6
The conference lasted three days.
It was a three-day conference.
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6A
We need a house with six bedrooms.
We ????????????
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7
We need a house with six bedrooms.
We need a six-bedroom house
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7A
The contract is for two years.
It's ????????????
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8
The contract is for two years.
It's a two-year contract.
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8A
The building is eighty metres high.
It's ????????????
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9
The building is eighty metres high.
It's an eighty-metre-high building.
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9A
The report is twenty pages long.
It's a ????????????
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10
The report is twenty pages long.
It's a twenty-page(-long) report.
'long' is not incorrect, but unnecessary.
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10A
This commitment lasts a lifetime.
This is ???????????
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11
This commitment lasts a lifetime.
This is a lifetime commitment.
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11A
The church is five hundred years old.
It's a ????????????
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12
The church is five hundred years old.
It's a five-hundred-year-old church.
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12A
An elephant weighing two tons is on the rampage*.
A ???????????
*a period or incident of violent and uncontrollable behaviour, typically involving a large group of people - or an elephant!
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13
An elephant weighing two tons is on the rampage.
A two-ton elephant is on the rampage*.
*a period or incident of violent and uncontrollable behaviour, typically involving a large group of people - or an elephant!
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13A
This offer can only be made once.
This is a ????????????
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14
This offer can only be made once.
This is a one-time offer.
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14A
He only thinks of one thing.
He's got ????????????
This will test you, but it's an expression worth learning.
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15
He only thinks of one thing.
He's got a one-track mind.
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15A
There are only two real
contenders in this contest.
It's a ????????????
use the words 'race' and 'horse'
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16
There are only two real
contenders in this contest. .
