c — Write answers to the questions using nouns and compound nouns from this section. There may be more than one way to answer a question

1. The photographer always keeps two cameras with him. One is his main camera. He'll use the second if there's a problem with the first. What is the second camera?

2. The phone company says my telephone service will stop on July 1 if I don't pay my bill before that date.

What is July I?

3. Dr. Smith is a new doctor. If he's not sure how to treat a patient, he'll call Dr. Wood for help. What is Dr.

Wood to Dr. Smith?

4. You used the new exercise equipment to see if you wanted to buy it. What did you do to the exercise equipment?

5. The police arrested Mrs. Taylor's husband because he was beating her. A social worker visited Mrs.

Taylor a few days later to talk to her. What did the social worker do?

6. The clothes I wore yesterday white I was exercising got very dirty. What got dirty?

7. We got food from a Chinese restaurant and ate it at home. What kind of food did we eat?

the interstate?

9. The number of arrests for burglary is a lot lower this year than last year. What has happened to the number of arrests for burglary?

10. Sally lost something very important on her computer because she didn't make another copy in case there was a problem with the original. Why did Sally have a problem?

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11. At the edge of the continental shelf, the sea floor falls several thousand feet. What is at the edge of the continental shelf?

12. I made 7,000 copies on this photocopier. What did I do to the photocopier?

EXERCISE 11d — Write answers to the questions using phrasal verbs and nouns from this section. Be sure the phrasal verbs are in the correct tense.

1. The electric company stopped my electricity because I didn't pay my bill. What did they do to the electricity?

2. I bought some fried chicken, and I took it to my house. What kind of food did I buy?

3. Exercising is good for your health. What is good for your health?

4. The long-distance company offered to let me use their service free for thirty days, and I'm going to try it. What am I going to do to the long-distance company's service?

5. In Question 4, what is the long-distance company letting me do?

6. During the flood, a lot of people couldn't leave their houses because of the water. What did the water do to them?

7. In Question 6, how would you describe these people?

8. You're making an extra copy of your work just in case. What are you doing?

9. In Question 8, what would you call the extra copy of your work that you're making?

10. The newspaper reporter is getting more information about something interesting that someone told her on the phone. What is the reporter doing?

H. My exercise routine is very difficult. What is difficult?

12. The prosecutor proved his accusation with some photographs. What did the prosecutor do with the photographs?

13. Jane wants to show the basketball coach that she would be a good member of the basketball team. What does Jane want to do?

14. I have a second alarm clock in case the first doesn't wake me up. What does my second alarm clock do to my first?

15. In Question 14, what would you call my second alarm clock?

16. Nicole takes her friend to the train station every morning. What does Nicole do to her friend?

17. I have an appointment with my doctor next month so that he can see if my surgery was successful.

What would you call my appointment next month?

18. Maria's plan isn't happening the way she expected. What isn't Maria's plan doing?

19. Bill went with Judy to dinner and a movie and he paid for everything. What did Bill do?

20. Two hundred guests at $45 each calculates to $9,000. What does 200 guests at $45 each do?

21. I have never stopped sleeping at 3:30 in the morning before. What have I never done before?

EXERCISE 11 e, Review — Complete the sentences with these phrasal verbs from previous sections. Be sure the phrasal verbs are in the correct tense. To check their meanings, review the section number given after each one.

come from, 1 give back, 1 hand out, 10 look for, 1 fall off, 10 go ahead, 10 hear about, 2 screw out of, 3 feel up to, 3 go along with, 3 kick back, 10 screw up, 10 fill in, 10 grow up, 10 lay off, 10 stay off, 2

1. If the company doesn't ________ ________ 20 percent of its employees, it's going to go out of business.

2. Blankets and boxes of food were ________ ________ to the flood victims.

3. I ________ ________ in Germany because my father was in the Army there.

4. Kathy didn't close her car window last night, and it rained. She really ________ ________.

5. You ________ ________; I'll catch up with you later.

6. The percentage of people who smoke ________________ after smoking was linked with lung cancer and heart disease.

7. What can I do to get my black cat to ________ ________ my white couch?

8. I've been _______ _______ an apartment that allows dogs, but I can't find one.

9. He's________________New York and will be here in two hours.

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10. I was so stuffed from that huge dinner my mother cooked that I didn't ________ _______________ playing tennis afterward.

11. Their lawyer tried to ________ them ________ ________ $ 120,000.

12. I don't feel like going anywhere tonight. Let's just ________ ________ and take it easy.

13. I'm sorry I can't agree with you, Joe, but I have to ________ ________ _______ Linda on this decision.

14. Here's my flashlight. Make sure you ________ it ________ when you're finished using it.

15. I didn't get 100 on the test because I forgot to ______ ______ one of the blanks.

16. This restaurant is wonderful. I'm surprised I haven't____________ it before.

12. FOCUS ON: past perfect phrasal verbs

The past perfect is used to say that one thing in the past happened before another thing in the past:

Mike said the wedding had fallen through.

past earlier in the past