like the way you are arguing. This discovery will give new hope to HIV/AIDS sufferers. . We were hoping against hope that the judges would not notice our mistakes.
. I called early in the hope of speaking to her before she went to school. . Just when everybody had given up hope , the fishermen came back, seven days after the cyclone.
Match the sentences in Column A with the meanings of ‘hope’ in Column B. These sportspersons are going to meet the President. Their performance has been excellent. ( whose ) .
Lencho prayed to God. His eyes see into our minds. ( whose ) . This man cheated me.
I trusted him. ( whom ) Sometimes the relative pronoun in a relative clause remains ‘hidden’. For example, look at the first sentence of the story: (a) The house — the only one in the entire valley — sat on the crest of a low hill. We can rewrite this sentence as: (b) The house — which was the only one in the entire valley — sat on the crest of a low hill.
In (a), the relative pronoun which and the verb was are not present. IV. Using Negatives for Emphasis We know that sentences with words such as no, not or nothing show the absence of something, or contradict something. For example: (a) This year we will have no corn.
(Corn will be absent) (b) The hail has left nothing. (Absence of a crop) (c) These aren’t raindrops falling from the sky, they are new coins. (Contradicts the common idea of what the drops of water falling from the sky are) But sometims negative words are used just to emphasise an idea. Look at these sentences from the story: (d) Lencho…had done nothing else but see the sky towards the north- east.
(He had done only this) (e) The man went out for no other reason than to have the pleasure of feeling the rain on his body. (He had only this reason) (f) Lencho showed not the slightest surprise on seeing the money. (He