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Root Words Exercise
- Sally was a student. She was studying art.
- She was studying art because she wanted to become an artist.
- 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.
- She sometimes went to the shops at lunch time, but she also went shopping on Saturday mornings.
- She did not want to buy a brightly coloured umbrella because her mother did not wear bright clothes.
- A black umbrella was useful to Sally's mother, but a brightly coloured one would have been useless as she never wore bright clothes.
- Sally had had a small lunch. Because of the size of this lunch she was very hungry by five o'clock.
- She burst into tears when she lost the umbrella, and answered the other passengers when they asked her what the matter was.
- She gave the other passengers her mother's address, and they sent their parcels to her.
- You can see from a person's date of birth when her or his birthday will be.
Exercise 3:
- Sally had been studying art for one year when this story began.
- She went out shopping when she had finished her morning's work.
- 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.
- When she had bought the umbrella she took it back to her college.
- She found that the umbrella had gone when she returned from the buffet car.
- The other passengers in the compartment had been sitting there since the train left the last station.
- They had been reading their evening papers for all that time.
- When Sally told them that she had lost an umbrella, they were very sorry.