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Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2007one word only in all three sentences
I need to find a word that can be used appropiately in all three sentences. I would appreciate if somebody could help me: 1. You have a ....... choice. Either you obey the rules or you leave. The tennis player beat his opponent in ...... sets. Pam has beautiful teeth they are pearly white and ........ 2. A wooden ......... had been nailed over the broken window pane. The local tourist .............. is offering several bargain breaks this spring. The guesthouse charges 10$ per night for romm and.........., so it offers good value. 3. Terence and his friends are a strange, arty ..........of people. Many of us are not satisfied to their .......and yet do nothing to improve their lives. At the auction I bought ........ number 3 which was an antique ring. 4. America ....... with Japan in the World Championship. Linda is ........ to the house all day because she's waiting for a delivery. The fortunes of the company are ........ to the success of the industry as a whole. Thank you very much for your interest and help. :) > I need to find a word that can be used appropiately in all three > sentences. I would appreciate if somebody could help me: > > 1. You have a ....... choice. Either you obey the rules or you leave. > The tennis player beat his opponent in ...... sets. > Pam has beautiful teeth they are pearly white and ........ This word is 8 letters but only one syllable. > 2. A wooden ......... had been nailed over the broken window pane. > The local tourist .............. is offering several bargain breaks > this spring. > The guesthouse charges 10$ per night for romm and.........., so it > offers good value. 5 letters, one syllable. > 3. Terence and his friends are a strange, arty ..........of people. > Many of us are not satisfied to their .......and yet do nothing to > improve their lives. > At the auction I bought ........ number 3 which was an antique > ring. 3 letters, one syllable. > 4. America ....... with Japan in the World Championship. > Linda is ........ to the house all day because she's waiting for a > delivery. > The fortunes of the company are ........ to the success of the > industry as a whole. I can't think of an answer here. Possibly at least one of the sentences is written in a way I would not find idiomatic.  SignatureMark Brader, Toronto "A cow-orker of mine used to ood dogs." msb@vex.net -- Steve Hayes > I can't think of an answer here. Possibly at least one of the sentences > is written in a way I would not find idiomatic. But now that I've seen Adrian's hint, I see that I just missed it. SignatureMark Brader, Toronto | "Please correct error between chair and monitor." msb@vex.net | -- James Baughn > I need to find a word that can be used appropiately in all three > sentences. I would appreciate if somebody could help me: [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > The fortunes of the company are ........ to the success of the > industry as a whole. 1. st_____t 2. b__rd 3. l_t 4. t__d Adrian zenovianita@yahoo.com had it: > I need to find a word that can be used appropiately in all three > sentences. I would appreciate if somebody could help me: These are very hard. I hope you are in an advanced English class. I'm only going to do one of them so that you can see the idea and try the rest for yourself (let us know). BTW, I think the tennis sentence is unreasonable for a non-native speaker. > 1. You have a ....... choice. Either you obey the rules or you leave. > The tennis player beat his opponent in ...... sets. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > The guesthouse charges 10$ per night for romm and.........., so it > offers good value. The answer is "board". Can you see why? > 3. Terence and his friends are a strange, arty ..........of people. > Many of us are not satisfied to their .......and yet do nothing to > improve their lives. This sentence is faulty - I think you have made a mistake in the copy. Either that or the setter has got the wrong preposition. > At the auction I bought ........ number 3 which was an antique > ring. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > The fortunes of the company are ........ to the success of the > industry as a whole. This one is probably the easiest - try it first. SignatureDavid ===== > zenovianita@yahoo.com had it: > > I need to find a word that can be used appropiately in all three > > sentences. I would appreciate if somebody could help me: [... ] > > 3. Terence and his friends are a strange, arty ..........of people. > > Many of us are not satisfied to their .......and yet do nothing to > > improve their lives. > > This sentence is faulty - I think you have made a mistake in the > copy. Either that or the setter has got the wrong preposition. Was the original written by a French speaker? There is an English word that would do very well in the first blank, and, if treated as a French word, would do fine in the second (at least if "to their" were written as "with our"), but the English word doesn't have that sense. athel > > zenovianita@yahoo.com had it: > > > I need to find a word that can be used appropiately in all three [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > athel You are right. I made a mistake when I copied the sentence. It goes like this: Many of us are not satified with their ......and yet do nothing to improve their lives". However the sentence sounds strange. It should have been "satisfied with our.... and do nothing to improve our lives." The person that wrote the sentence is Virginia Evans who, as far as I know, is from England. > zenovianita@yahoo.com had it: > > 4. America ....... with Japan in the World Championship. > > Linda is ........ to the house all day because she's waiting for a [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > This one is probably the easiest - try it first. Not so sure this one is easiest. The first sentence sounds wrong in my ears. I would tend to say something else in that situation. >> zenovianita@yahoo.com had it: > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Not so sure this one is easiest. The first sentence sounds wrong in my > ears. I would tend to say something else in that situation. It sounds fine to me, although I'm not a native speaker. Maybe it's a US/UK thing? mcv. SignatureScience is not the be-all and end-all of human existence. It's a tool. A very powerful tool, but not the only tool. And if only that which could be verified scientifically was considered real, then nearly all of human experience would be not-real. -- Zachriel The MyUsefulAddress@googlemail.com entity posted thusly: >> zenovianita@yahoo.com had it: > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >Not so sure this one is easiest. The first sentence sounds wrong in my >ears. I would tend to say something else in that situation. Sounds just fine to this Canadian. > The MyUsefulAddress@googlemail.com entity posted thusly: > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Sounds just fine to this Canadian. I would hardly ever say that one team tied with another team. I would say "drew". The only time I would say "tied" would be in a very specific cricketing situation. The MyUsefulAddress@googlemail.com entity posted thusly: >> The MyUsefulAddress@googlemail.com entity posted thusly: >> [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] >say "drew". The only time I would say "tied" would be in a very >specific cricketing situation. And in Canada, you might hear "it was a draw", though you would be more likely to hear "it was a tie", or "it was tied". You would never (well, almost never) hear "they drew". >> The MyUsefulAddress@googlemail.com entity posted thusly: >>>> zenovianita@yahoo.com had it: >>>>> 4. America ....... with Japan in the World Championship. >>>>> Linda is ........ to the house all day because she's waiting [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > say "drew". The only time I would say "tied" would be in a very > specific cricketing situation. That might be pondian. In my experience in the USA, a draw can happen in a chess match, but for other games that condition is usually called a tie. SignatureSkitt Ever ready to retract the aforesaid and aver the opposite. > zenovianita@yahoo.com had it: > > I need to find a word that can be used appropiately in all three > > sentences. I would appreciate if somebody could help me: > > These are very hard. I hope you are in an advanced English class. Actually I think they're worse than hard. There the sort of pointless puzzles that you find newspapers and magazines that may be helpful for getting through a long dark winter evening, but they teach nothing of value to anyone trying to learn English. athel > Actually I think they're worse than hard. There the sort... Oh dear. "They're the sort" a. > > Actually I think they're worse than hard. There the sort... > > Oh dear. "They're the sort" > > a. Now guys, thanks to your hints I've managed to solve the first three sets of sentences. The answers are STRAIGHT, BOARD and LOT. What about the last one? I've been trying to find the right word all day. :((((( > Now guys, thanks to your hints I've managed to solve the first three > sets of sentences. The answers are STRAIGHT, BOARD and LOT. What about > the last one? I've been trying to find the right word all day. :((((( Tied. SignatureSkitt Jes' fine >> > Actually I think they're worse than hard. There the sort... >> [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > sets of sentences. The answers are STRAIGHT, BOARD and LOT. What about > the last one? I've been trying to find the right word all day. :((((( Have you tried tied? SignatureRay UK -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 997 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Try SPAMfighter for free now! > >> > Actually I think they're worse than hard. There the sort... > >> [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Ray > UK Thanks a lot Ray. TIE seems to be the key. :) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. > It has removed 997 spam emails to date. > Paying users do not have this message in their emails. > Try SPAMfighter for free now! > The guesthouse charges 10$ per night for romm and.........., so it > offers good value. $10 The dollar sign is written first, but it's pronounced second. ($10 = "ten dollars") |
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