Hello everyone. I’m RaspC5, fifteen years old and from Vietnam. When I did my exercises, I had difficulty finishing them. Therefore, today I need your help. I hope to be given the specific explanation.
1/ Give the correct form of the word in bracket
How can you _________the fact that some people live in mansions while others live in slums ? (JUST)
My answer is JUSTIFY, is it correct ?
2/ Choose the best answer:
I was in no way prepared for the__________of criticism my play received.
A. onslaught
B. onset
C. offensive
D. assault
My answer is A, is it correct ?
3/ Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using the word given.
a) She have tried to make friends with John but he is so cold. (ICE)
b)The job was too hard so he wanted to resigned from it. (BED)
c) Danny came in for blame when his company went bankrupt. (FINGER)
d) I couldn’t make a lot of money after the crisis. (TOUCH)
e) Anna pretended not to be upset though the chances of success were quite small. (LIP)
In this part, if there are any phrasal verbs or idioms, can you give the meaning of each one ?
4/ I wonder whether let is used in the passive ?
In Oxford book, the author John Eastwood writes: “Use allow in the passive but not let. The hostages were allowed to go free”.
Nevertheless, in some books the passive structure of let is:
S + be + let + to inf ?
Therefore, I can’t use let in the passive ?
Thanks in advance
P/s: Please make allowance for me if there are any ungrammatical sentences in my post
I will try to finish part 3, because I think that I will have to use phrasal verbs and idioms to finish this part, but I am bad at these. I will post my answer as soon as possible. Thank you, Beeesneees.
You are right that you need to use some idioms. If it’s any consolation , even as a native English speaker, some of them didn’t spring immediately to mind and I had to spend a few seconds thinking about them.
a) She have tried to make friends with John but he is so cold. (ICE)
b) The job was too hard so he wanted to resigned from it. (BED)
–> The job was not a bed of roses so he wanted ro resigned from it
c) Danny came in for blame when his company went bankrupt. (FINGER)
–> The finger of suspicion was pointed at Danny when his company went bankrupt
d) I couldn’t make a lot of money after the crisis. (TOUCH)
–> I could not have the Midas touch after the crisis
e) Anna pretended not to be upset though the chances of success were quite small. (LIP)
–> Ann bit her lip though the chances of success were quite small
Please help me do the first sentence because I don’t find any idioms which are suitable for this and check the rest sentences which I have just done. Thanks in advance
a) She has tried to make friends with John but he is like ice. / … but he is ice cold. (Usually it would be ‘he is icy’ but the question indicates you need to use the word as it is.)
b) The job was too hard so he wanted to put it to bed. (This is all I could think of - but ‘putting something to bed’ means finishing it rather than resigning from it, so it’s not an ideal fit.)
c) Your suggestion is good.
d) I lost my touch after the crisis. (to lose one’s touch = lose mastery of something so was unable to make money. Again, it doesn’t seem an ideal fit.)
e) Anna kept a stiff upper lip even though her chances of success were quite small. (to keep a stiff upper lip = to hide any emotions which would indicate weakness)
Ah the last sentence, when I looked some idioms up in Oxford idioms, I found 2 idioms in my judgment which could be suitable for this sentence. The first one is my answer and the second is yours. - Bite your lip: force yourself not to express the negative emotions that you are feeling
E.g: You could tell she thought the criticism was unfair but she bit her lip and said nothing
b a stiff upper lip:[/b] keep calm and hide your feelings when you are in pain or in a difficult situation
E.g: The English gentleman is famous for his stiff upper lip
(Excerpted from Oxford idioms - dictionary for learners of English)
Those letters which are in italic type make me confused, and finally I chose the first one.
And the sentence d, the Midas touch: the ability to be very successful in making money.
be a bed of roses: be easy, comfortable or pleasant
Do you think that these idioms are appropriate for these sentences ?
I would not use ‘bit her lip’ for sentence (e) because it means ‘Did not express herself verbally’. Think of the saying like this:
she bit her lip and said nothing. > She held her lip with her teeth so that she could not speak. (She could not say what she was thinking).
If you bite your lip you don’t want to express your negative feelings about something because you don’t want to cause offence.
Our daughter asked us what we thought of her new boyfriend. My wife mumbled something non-commital but I bit my lip and said nothing.
If you use ‘the Midas touch’ you would have to use ‘I did not have’ - it’s another that is not a great fit.
‘Bed of roses’ is good. It could be used this way:
The job was not a bed of roses, so he wanted to resign from it.
Many thanks for your help, I have understood the difference between two idioms in the last sentence. And do you have any suggestions about the sentence d ?
If I haven’t commented, your suggestions are great as they stand!
I
standstill
sensitive
II
stems from fear
The phrase you’ve chosen is correct but the sentence seems to be wrong: We want to inform you of all the details. / We want to inform you of all the ins and outs.
‘from somewhere’ is no longer needed now you have used ‘rings a bell’.
Ive been reading your posts and I wantto say that, in my country [b]"bit a lip"[/b] is used also when you say something, which wasnt worth of saying and then you worry about it and you bit your lip for saying that.