Enhance Your English: Synonyms, Passive Voice, and More

Synonyms

• Whether
• Chances
• Restore
• Skills

Passive Voice

Passive:

1. Stability was thought to be the most important thing in a society.
2. Children aren’t brought up in families here.
3. My uncle was sent some beautiful roses.
4. A lot of alcohol is being drunk at the party.

Rewrites

1. John must have copied...
2. We will have our windows washed tomorrow.
3. I shouldn’t have left my soma...
4. You aren’t allowed to have long,.../ You Can’t have
5. I bought a Mercedes to impress my new girlfriend.

Translations

1. You should give that disgusting director a taste of his own medicine.
2. That sweet smell brought back memories of my childhood.
3. Children are being taught while they sleep in the New World.
4. I like perfumes that set off emotions.
5. Some shops use very subtle scents so that the customers don’t realise that they are using them.

Vocabulary

1. Bring along
2. Bitter
3. Deafening
4. Accurate
5. Set off
6. Start out
7. Tantalizing
8. Mood

Reported Speech

John told Lenina not to talk to him because he was angry with her.

Fanny asked Lenina why Bernard did antisocial things.

Bernard asked John where he had been born.

A Reporter asked the police inspector how he had found the missing girl the year before.

Laura told Robert that he made her nervous when he stared at her like that.

More Reported Speech

1. Sam suggested eating in a restaurant that day.
2. Andrew refused to go into that toilet because it stank.
3. Tom agreed to help me with my homework.
4. Tim apologised for not phoning me while I had been in the hospital.
5. The Lifeguard warned us not to surf today because the sea was very rough.
6. Emily advised me to try that lasagne.
7. Helmholtz denied having read poetry to his students.

Historical Events

• 1843 - Espartero out. Isabel's coming of age.
• 1844 - Moderate Decade, Narvaez, Civil Guard.
• 1845 - Constitution, characteristics, Mon, Pidal.
• 1846 - 2nd Carlist War.
• 1848 - Crisis, instability, revolts.
• 1849 - Democratic Party.
• 1851 - Concordat.
• 1852 - Murillo resigned.
• 1854 - Vicalvarada pronouncement.
• Castillo wrote the Manzanares Manifesto.
• 1855-56 - Two-year progressive period.
• New constitution, non nata.
• Three economic initiatives.