Reweire Rewrite the following sentences . Make sure you don't change the meaning of the original sentences. 5.Jimmy went home before sonya arrived.(by the time...) 5. By the time Sonya arrived, Jimmy had gone home. or 5. Jimmy had gone home

Hi Madhulk, Yes, I agree with Avangi about the decision being the one not to tell of Lionel's killing of his parents. The tenses used ( I knew .. I made a decision ... it was a wrong one ) also make it clear that it was a decision made at some

Hi Taka, None that I can see, in general English at least. It is possible that in a specialist technical environment where detectors are used, there might be a preference for one term over the other, but I can't see that it would alter the

So "That wall is too high to climb" have has to be " That wall is so high to climb"? No, not exactly; 'too high' implies that it is not possible to climb it. A more exact equivalent would be: "That wall is so high,

Hi Yoong Liat, It is quite possible to use 'a universe' in English. For example: "His ideas and mine are a universe apart." There are many other examples to be found of such usage.

Hi athelas (and welcome to English Forums), I think you may be starting from a false premise here; I'm not at all sure that many British speakers pronounce 'Kind of" as 'Kine-uh'. The pronunciation of 'Kind of" as

Hi Tanit, I'm glad to find that we are both singing from the same hymn sheet (there you go, yet another English idiom to bemuse learners of the language ). Anyway, thanks for providing some background to the CPE exam, which I found interesting

As a (British) native-speaker of English, I found both this exercise and the previous one relatively straightforward, but I'd imagine that learners of English will find both of the tests a considerable challenge. However, I don't think

Yes, I think it's primarily a sporting term, although the reference here is specifically to rugby rather than soccer; a 'prop' is a positional term used in rugby, but not in football (soccer). I think too, it is sometimes used

Yes, that's fine. You could also use 'the many' in a sentence such as this: Of the many tourist attractions in London, one of the most popular is the London Eye.