Detail of a Catherine wheel firework in the Netherlands.

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A lady in traditional dress using her spinning wheel outside an old, thatched, crofter’s cottage (now a heritage centre) on the island of Ulva, one of the Inner Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland.

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Exercises

Spinners

Turn out as many sentences as you can that use all three of the words given.

Introduction

For each group of words, compose a sentence that uses all three. You can use any form of the word: for example, cat → cats, go → went, or quick → quickly, though neigh → neighbour is stretching it a bit.

The words in this puzzle are taken randomly from a list of 927 common words. You can change e.g. cat → cats, go → went, quick → quickly.

1 Magazine. Sometimes. Top.

2 Fight. General. Maintain.

3 Close. Go. Significant.

Variations: 1. include direct and indirect speech 2. include one or more of these words: although, because, despite, either/or, if, unless, until, when, whether, which, who 3. use negatives (not, isn’t, neither/nor, never, nobody etc.)

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