Chapter 14 SENTENCES ON SYNTAX AND IDIOMS

FOR VIVA VOCE PRACTICE

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1. There it was that I came into the world and spent the first years of my life.

2. Their uncle was a proud and miserly old man, and so nobody liked him.

3. I must say, to begin with, that my birth did not bring my father good luck.

4. From that moment the factory was on its last legs.

5. Soon th