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PART VII. Give the correct form of the word in bracket to complete the passage.
The (1. SAY)__________ “never judge a book by its cover” could not be more true for Ridiculous Rulesby Marjorie Allen.Thecoveriscompletelyblank,whereasthe book is crammed full of wonderful examples and anecdotes. Allen is an(2. SPEAK)__________ critic of what is taught to native and non-native speakers of English, and has issued a (3. DECLARE)__________ of war against text books and stylebooks which tell lies.
Take the ridiculous and (4. MEAN)__________ rule of never ending a sentence with a preposition. The lovely - if famous – story goes, that Winston Churchill, well-known for his numerous (5. WRITE)__________ as well as for being British Prime Minister during the Second World War, received a manuscript back from an ignorant (6. EDIT)__________, who had told him rather rudely that he had to (7. PHRASE)__________ a sentence which ended with a preposition. Churchill responded by making the simple yet forceful (8. STATE)__________ in the margin: “This is an impertinence up with which I will not put.” –the(9. IMPLY)__________ being that not to end a sentence with a preposition often sounds ridiculous in English, Sadly, Allen informs us that the story is probably mere(10. HEAR)__________, and that Churchill may have actually only written “rubbish!” in the margin.
The (1. SAY)__________ “never judge a book by its cover” could not be more true for Ridiculous Rulesby Marjorie Allen.Thecoveriscompletelyblank,whereasthe book is crammed full of wonderful examples and anecdotes. Allen is an(2. SPEAK)__________ critic of what is taught to native and non-native speakers of English, and has issued a (3. DECLARE)__________ of war against text books and stylebooks which tell lies.
Take the ridiculous and (4. MEAN)__________ rule of never ending a sentence with a preposition. The lovely - if famous – story goes, that Winston Churchill, well-known for his numerous (5. WRITE)__________ as well as for being British Prime Minister during the Second World War, received a manuscript back from an ignorant (6. EDIT)__________, who had told him rather rudely that he had to (7. PHRASE)__________ a sentence which ended with a preposition. Churchill responded by making the simple yet forceful (8. STATE)__________ in the margin: “This is an impertinence up with which I will not put.” –the(9. IMPLY)__________ being that not to end a sentence with a preposition often sounds ridiculous in English, Sadly, Allen informs us that the story is probably mere(10. HEAR)__________, and that Churchill may have actually only written “rubbish!” in the margin.
