University of Costa Rica

School of Modern Languages

LM-0352, English Grammar I
Prof. Canales

Answer Key for Exercises on Verbs

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Exercise 8
Holdall / carry things / travel
Hinge / swings / closes
Hallucination / seeing something /
Hypocrite / pretends / behaves
Hijacker / seizes / go / demand something

Exercise 9
1. Take / a. believe it Matching order: b c d a
2. Like / b. put it in
3. Wait / c. going to
4. Heard / d. shivering

Exercise 10

1. Gets, moves
2. Nap, rest
3. Hibernate, eat
4. Lie, fall
5. Talks, happens
6. Sing, go
7. Snore, breathe
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Exercise 11

1. Good luck to him

2. Her L500
3. Us permission to walk across his field
4. To me that he had taken Caroline’s book

Exercise 12
1. Reserved, keeping it for
2. Spread, transmit them to
3. Retrieved, found them for
4. Transferred, sold him to
5. Required, offer them to

Exercise 13

During the psychology class, one student reported her experiment to us. She explained to us that
it was about communication between husbands and wives. The researcher gave the following
information to half of the husbands. “Your wife has described a holiday trip to China to you.”
One of her friends told her about it. You think it sounds like a really good idea, so you ask her
some questions about the cost. The other group of husbands heard the following information.
“Your wife has suggested a holiday trip to China to you. You don’t like it. You believe it is a
really bad idea, so you ask some more questions to her about the cost. The researcher didn’t tell
the wives what she had said to the husbands. She asked the wives to listen to the tape recording
of their husbands’ questions and decide if decide if their husbands thought it was a good idea not.
A significant number of wives couldn’t decide. That was very surprising.

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Exercise 14

1. Is D
 2. Look F
3. Feel E
4. Appear B
5. Sound A
6. Taste C

Exercise 15

A. Smelled, tasted
B. Get, made, become
C. Looked, seemed to be living or appeared to be living , turned
D. Get, turn, stay, turn or get

Exercise 16

One Saturday afternoon, when my younger sister Mona and I were teenagers, I was getting ready
to go to a party. Mona hadn’t been invited. It appeared to be a big problem for her. She went
crazy because of it. She found some hair-colour and she just decided to make her hair blond, but
she didn’t do it right and her hair turned bright orange. It also turned / made her face orange, so
she looked very strange. When my mother saw her, she said Mona looked like an orange
balloon. After that, Mona got very upset, and she started screaming with her hands over her ears.
I just kept quiet during all that. My mother eventually calmed her down and we got some darker
hair-colour to make it look better.
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