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they were in Paris.
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3. Sandra has been ____ doctor for eight
the word “you” and before “eu”:
4. They saw ____ thousand different things when they were on
a university a European country
holiday.
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6.
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of newspapers:
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always reads the form of an adjective:
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is the tallest boy at school.
the superlative form of an adjective:
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tallest before ordinal numbers:
at school.
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Rome. numbers:
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1. ____ axe can be used to cut down trees.

2. ____ wheelaxe
1. ____ is always
can beround.
used to cut down trees.
3. I 2.
wanted
____ towheel
be ____ actor when
is always round. I was young.
4. You
3. can write things
I wanted to be ____on ____
actornotebook.
when I was young.
5. Some people
4. You can wear
write ____
thingsuniform
on ____ at notebook.
work.
6. ____car
5. Some is faster
peoplethan wear a bicycle.
____ uniform at work.
7. There is ____ is
6. ____car ashtray
faster on thea kitchen
than bicycle.table.
8. You
7. can take
There is ____
____ laptop
ashtray everywhere
on the kitchenyou go.
table.
9. ____ armchair
8. You can take is more
____comfortable than a chair.
laptop everywhere you go.
10. ____ apple armchair
9. ____ a day keeps the doctor
is more away. than a chair.
comfortable
11. Women putapple
10. ____ a lot of things
a day in ____
keeps handbag.
the doctor away.
12. ____ highlighter
11. Women put isa used
lot of for marking
things things
in ____ in a book.
handbag.
13. ____ hammer
12. ____ is used for
highlighter hitting
is used fornails into things
marking wood. in a book.
14. ____ octopus
13. ____ is a sea
hammer creature
is used with eight
for hitting nailstentacles.
into wood.
15. You
14.use
_______ iron forismaking
octopus clothes smooth.
a sea creature with eight tentacles.
15. You use ___ iron to for making clothes smooth.