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??????CONFUSING WORDS??????
Choose
the correct word or complete the word in the sentences below.
- The
boy’s mother told him to be very sensitive/sensible
when he crossed the busy road.
- The truck company ordered the driver/chauffeur
to take rest as he had already driven for six hours without stopping.
- “Look
out, can you see over their/there is a huge
wave coming towards us!”
- When
she decided to cook falafel she took out her recipe/receipt
book.
- Beside/besides
telling them to do homework, the teacher also gave them a test.
- When
he bought his new car, he decided to lend/borrow
some money from the bank.
- He
became Oxford University’s youngest teacher/professor
at the age of thirty, when he took the chair in Chemistry.
- The
film made us laugh so much we nearly cried; it was a very f…………
film.
- He
was a stranger/foreigner to London, although
he had been born only fifty miles away, he had never been there before.
- The school organized a meeting/reunion
for all the students who had been there in the year that it opened.
- Alexander
Fleming discovered/invented penicillin.
- I
like to bathe/bath in the sea early in the
morning.
- When
I arrived in Abu Dhabi I often felt very alone/lonely.
- If
someone claps their hands together in front of our face, you automatically wink/blink.
This is called an involuntary movement.
When you buy something expensive, like a TV. or
microwave, it is a good idea to keep the r…………………
in case you have any problems with it.
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