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Exercises

Exercises are based on textbooks given to pupils in English schools from the 1920s to the 1960s.

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Words of Praise

Suggest suitable adjectives to describe these nouns when they are at their best.

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Adjectives

Compose your own sentences to bring out the meaning of these adjectives.

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Extreme Adjectives

These rather strong adjectives need some careful handling; see if you are up to the task.

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Jigsaw Sentences

Join each group of sentences together to make single sentence, in as many ways as you can.

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Opposites

Suggest words that seem opposite in meaning to the words in this list.

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Verb and Noun

Show that each of these words can be used as a noun and also as a verb.