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Combine each group of ideas into one sentence, in as many ways as you can. See if you can work in one or more of the words suggested.
1 He felt a tug on his coat-tails. He looked round. It was the fat boy. [Attention. See. When.]
2 The maid was asleep on the kitchen table. They had to wake her. This took some time. [Expect. Necessary. Who.]
Sentences based on Charles Dickens’s Pickwick Papers.
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