Root Words Exercise

1. Sally was a student. She was studying art.
2. She was studying art because she wanted to become an artist.
3. Her usual lunch was a salad, but one day she did not go into the college hall as usual, and had a sandwich and a cup of coffee instead.
4. She sometimes went to the shops at lunch time, but she also went shopping on Saturday mornings.
5. She did not want to buy a brightly coloured umbrella because her mother did not wear bright clothes.
6. A black umbrella was useful to Sally's mother, but a brightly coloured one would have been useless as she never wore bright clothes.
7. Sally had had a small lunch. Because of the size of this lunch she was very hungry by five o'clock.
8. She burst into tears when she lost the umbrella, and answered the other passengers when they asked her what the matter was.
9. She gave the other passengers her mother's address, and they sent their parcels to her.
10. You can see from a person's date of birth when her or his birthday will be.

Exercise 3:

1. Sally had been studying art for one year when this story began.
2. She went out shopping when she had finished her morning's work.
3. She had to send the umbrella to her mother instead of taking it to her because she had been living away from home for two years.
4. When she had bought the umbrella she took it back to her college.
5. She found that the umbrella had gone when she returned from the buffet car.
6. The other passengers in the compartment had been sitting there since the train left the last station.
7. They had been reading their evening papers for all that time.
8. When Sally told them that she had lost an umbrella, they were very sorry.