2. Speech patterns 1. Rose thought him quite funny. 2. She saw his face peering through that mask. 3. Sue wanted him to stop clowning for them.

3. Pattern 1. 1. The Murdstones thought that David was disobedient. 2. Everybody found that there was something mysterious about Lady Alroy. 3.We thought that the last scene was quite impressive. 4. I found that the stranger’s voice was vaguely familiar to me.

4. Pattern 2. 1. Sabina came into the hall, she saw that he was sitting at the telephone. 2. Outside he found that Joe was standing on the platform. 3. She watched how he was waving farewell to his friend. 4. We watched how the seers-off were shuffling from foot to foot.

5. Pattern 3. 1. Erik started to read the letter again. 2. At last Jack finished to write numerous letters of introduction. 3. Burton’s namesake started to play poker and went broke. 4. The Gadfly pulled chrysanthemum from the vase and began to pluck off one white petal after another.

6. Think of a situation. Suggest a beginning matching up the end. Pattern 1: 1. ….vaguely familiar. 2...quite sociable. 3. ….rather impressive. 4. …obedient. 5. …quite different. 6. …valuable. Pattern 2: 1. …making a pause in his story. 2. …shrugging her shoulders. 3. …passing the bread-plate to the man next to him. 4. …serving another meal.

7. Pattern 3: 1. …stopped breathing. 2. …stopped shivering with cold. 3. …began trembling with fear. 4. …stopped making notes. 5. …finished reading aloud.