Exercises in oral and written expression, based on old school textbooks
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Suggest suitable adjectives to describe these nouns when they are at their best.
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Compose your own sentences to bring out the meaning of these adjectives.
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These rather strong adjectives need some careful handling; see if you are up to the task.
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Join each group of sentences together to make single sentence, in as many ways as you can.
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Suggest words that seem opposite in meaning to the words in this list.
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Show that each of these words can be used as a noun and also as a verb.