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This is really a game for two. Suppose you have been given a secret list containing the five words below. Can you help your friend guess all five words in under a minute?
IVeterinary surgeon. IISieve. IIIScent. IVTwist. VBang.
You can use definitions like those you find in a dictionary, or just anything you know your friend will ‘get’. Don’t use the word itself, or a word that sounds exactly the same.
For example
Detective.
A person, especially a police officer, who attempts to solve crimes by deductive reasoning.
Or more simply, Sherlock Holmes was a private one.
Write a paragraph of exactly three sentences about a well-known person. You may begin only one sentence with the person’s name, and only one sentence with he/she. Suggested people:
IMahatma Gandhi. IIJulius Caesar. IIIJane Austen. IVHenry VIII of England. VAlexander the Great. VINapoleon Bonaparte. VIILeonardo da Vinci.
Adapted from an exercise in Think and Speak (1929) by NL Clay.
Assess the punctuation of this sentence, according to the author’s own principles.
“I have some satisfaction in reflecting, that, in the course of editing the Greek text of the New Testament, I believe I have destroyed more than a thousand commas, which prevented the text being properly understood.”
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