SPEECH PATTERNS
1. It occurred to himthat they had been dragged from the shelves by vermin before being eaten.
Didn’t it occur to you that your son might be late?
I suppose it never occurred to you to phone the police?
2. What if it were a vast public library, in which the people were unable to read the books?
What if it were a list of new words to be learned for tomorrow?
What if it were a combination of symbols which ancient people used?
3. It might have been better if they had risen up in a fury and destroyed the library.
It might have been better if he had been stopped by the newsagent’s on his way home.
It might have been better if Anne had taken a picture of us standing by a huge tree.
Phrases and word combinations
to scatter smth across the floor to be acclaimed as
to come to rest on smth posthumous publications
(about one’s finger) to counterfeit smth
the frontispiece to be content with smth (to do smth)
eternal fame a patchwork of (voices and styles)
daydream of one’s own to abandon the project
to be possessed by the spirits of smb a selection of literary reminiscence
to seem familiar to engraved plates
trick of one’s imagination to cross the threshold
to idly trace smth the subliminal figure
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