Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Complex Answers

This is how I would have done the exercise. Please tell me if you think anything strange or wrong:

1. Ibrahim bought an eight-hundred-thousand-pound farmhouse with three acres of land.
2. A sixteen-year-old girl wearing a belly dancing costume came into Victor’s bedroom.
3. Hye Jin needs some six-inch steel nails.
4. Concorde was the fastest passenger plan in the world.
5. Have you seen those Swiss army knives with gadgets for everything?
6. Ayaka used to be a much-respected economics lecturer at Oxford University.
7. Akiko has just started a fifty-thousand-pound job with a New York firm of accountants.
8. Assem bought a three-hundred-year-old picture of two men working in a field.
9. Nelja had a fantastic four-course meal with two bottles of wine for less than twenty pounds.
10. Sangsoo was on a long, twelve-hour flight with stop-overs in Delhi and Moscow.
11. The forty-car pile-up on the M1, caused by yesterday’s freak weather conditions, has finally been cleared by police.
12. Pan Am Airways passengers flying to New York can expect three-hour delays.

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