B) Ask your partner to read the exercise aloud; write down all cases of erroneous pronunciation; correct them.
4. Complete the following sentences:
a) 1. I can't possibly. have done it alone... 2. How can I possibly .do it..? 3. We couldn't possibly .be in our bread-and-milk.. 4. You can't possibly . jump into the icy cold water.. 5. How could we possibly .meet a ghost..? 6. .Translate it without a dictionary ..if you possibly can.
b) 1. This textbook is meant for .us to be very difficult.. 2. I wonder who .may be.. meant for? 3. .He..is evidently meant to be an engineer... 4. .She..wasn't meant. to be a girl of few ideas.
c) 1. That part of the house was nice if .small.. 2. The lecture was educational if .difficult.. 3. The meeting was useful if .long..
Make up five sentences on each pattern (p. 140).
1)
They had told him that Nicholas could not possibly beone of the party; he was in disgrace. Only that morning he can possibly have refused to eat it. The dramatic part of the incident can possibly be that there really was a frog in Nicholas's basin of bread-and-milk; he had put it there himself, so he can possibly feel entitled to know something about it. The fact that stood out clearest in the whole affair, as it presented itself to the mind of Nicholas, can possibly be that the they had been proved to be profoundly in error in matters about which they had expressed the utmost assurance.