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.g.I can t let you have any money this week; I m really hard up.The idiom & with very & x ' '.We were so hard upthat we couldn t even afford a newspaper788 rapidDictation 95We spent the whole afternoon/ gathering up the apples/ that had fallen on theground./ A railway line/ does not have to be level,/ but it should not climb toorapidly,/ otherwise a train cannot run on it./ When we weighed the cake,/ my fatherwas very surprised./ He had not realized/ it would weigh so much./ The theatreseats were well made,/ so the audience/ were able to relax/ and watch the play incomfort./ For one brief moment,/ I was certain he would succeed.Do Revision Exercise 63 LESSON 141789 Double contractionsAlthough it is not common, we sometimes use double contractions inspoken English.For example, instead of saying I will have gone bytomorrow , we can say I ll ve gone by tomorrow .Also, instead of saying I would have done it , we can say I d ve done it .x ' ' '.She ll ve gone home before you arrive.She d ve come later if she d known.deliver mail beforehand' 'They deliver & at about &I ' ' '''If I had to deliver a speech, I d &criticI '' If I could choosebetween working & , I d prefer &expect rely onx ' xYes, I m expecting & ~ No, I m not expecting &790 ' xYes, I think & ~ No, I don t think &I x IYes, that s right; I understand &~ No, that isn t right; I don t understand & ' 'Yes, I can always be relied on to &~ No, I can t always be relied on to.fast fasten'When we & , we mean that they recompletely asleep, and would be difficult to wake up' ' '' Yes, aeroplane passengers have to &porterI ' '' ' ' 'If I arrived & , I d &791 Compound adjectives (continued)a fifty-minute lesson a four-door car jogAnother common type of compound adjective in English is when, insteadof saying The lesson lasted for fifty minutes , we say It was a fifty-minute lesson , or instead of saying This car has four doors , we say This is a four-door car .In these examples, fifty-minute and four-door are compound adjectives.' 'Instead of & , we can say He had a two-week holiday 'Instead of & , we can say Let s go for a ten-kilometre jog With these adjectives, notice that the word after the number is singular,not plural.For example, we say a twenty-page document , not atwenty-pages document .This is because the word page is being usedas an adjective in this phrase, and adjectives in English do not have pluralforms. I ' ' '' ' In the phrase & , the word kilometre & because it is being used as an adjective,and adjectives in English do not have plural formsx ' '.An eleven-man team,a two-litre bottle, a six-bedroom houseovernight lifestyle' '' ' Yes, people who &792 mereI ' ' 'Yes, there s a job I can think of that I d like &~ No, there isn t any job I can think of that I d like &nuisance'' I think the best & is to &post doorpost goaldig dug dug postageThese are doorposts' '' When we wantto put & , we must digfairly deep holes in the groundThe three forms of dig are dig, dug, dug ' ' 'I d say my & was to &'Yes, big companies &793 ' 'The postage for & is &naughty punish'When I was & , my parents&foldI You re folding a page of your booknative' My native language is &treasureI '' ' ' Yes, there sstill & , especially at the bottom ofthe sea where ships sank in the old daysreceipt prove' 'If I took & , the shop might notagree to change the product or give me a refund 794 Idiom 42to be determined and insist on somethinge.g.My daughter kept asking me if she could go to the party but I had to put myfoot down and say no.The idiom & to be determined and & x ' '.If I hadn t put my foot downand got angry with them, they would have donenothing and the work would never have got finished LESSON 142795 Two meanings of quite In front of some extreme adjectives, such as wonderful or terrible ,the word quite means completely .In this situation, we say the word quite with a heavy stress, because we are being emphatic.For example,we can say The weather is quite wonderful! .In this sentence, the words quite wonderful mean completely wonderful .x '' ' '
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