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What actually happened to the rabbit? a. The dog ate the rabbit. b. The dog found it died. c. Chris unconsciously killed it. d. Chris’s neighbour killed it and buried it before the dog found it. e. It died and buried in the backyard before the dog dug it out.
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“If my neighbours find out my dog killed their bunny, they’ll hate me forever” (line 4). The sentence implies …. a. Chris wanted his neighbour to know that his dog killed the rabbit. b. Chris worried if his neighbour was angry with him. c. Chris hated his neighbour so that he killed the rabbit. d. Chris let his dog eat the rabbit. e. Chris was happy because his dog could kill the rabbit.
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The word ‘him’ in line 13 refers to …. a. The dog b. Chris c. The rabbit d. Chris’s neighbour e. Chris’s rabbit
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“We just found him dead in his cage one day. But the strange thing is that the day after we buried him, we went out to dinner and someone must have dug him up, gave him a bath and put him back into the cage”. What does the statement mean? a. The dog was dead before the dog dug it out. b. Someone consciously killed the rabbit and hid it. c. Someone found a dead rabbit and then buried it. d. Chris put it back to its cage because his dog killed it. e. His neighbour did not know that the rabbit was dead in its cage.
10. What actually happened was …. a. the rabbit was dead because the dog killed it. b. Chris ordered his dog to get the rabbit. c. the rabbit did not die because of the dog. d. Chris’s neighbour thought that the rabbit was still alive. e. Chris’s neighbour actually wanted the rabbit dead.
Task 19 Study the following rule.
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Verb-ing Is a Present Participle or a Gerund?
Present Participle In the text on Task 15, you find a sentence: A vampire bat came flapping in from the night. The sentence is actually derived from two sentences A vampire bat came in from the night A vampire bat flapped. The two sentences are combined by using a present participle. Gerund Study the following sentences. The floor needs cleaning. Sunbathing is what tourists do on the beach.
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