4.3 'It' and 'one/some/any/none'4.3C 'I hope/believe/expect so' [> LEG 4.17]
Study: 1 We use so (not //) after these verbs when we are responding in the affirmative:
believe, expect, fear, guess, hope, imagine, say, suppose, tell someone and think:
Is what you told me true? -1 believe so. (Not / believe l believe it)
2 We use so in the affirmative after I'm afraid and It seems:
The weather changing for the worse. - I'm afraid so. It seems so.3 We can make a negative in two ways after these verbs:
believe, expect, imagine, suppose, think and It seems:
Is that true?- 1 don't think so. Or: I think not.Write: Write questions or statements followed by responses using believe, etc.1 Someone asks you if the next train goes to London. You believe it does.
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2 Someone says the weather is going to improve. You hope it will.3 Someone asks you if the letters have arrived yet. You don't think they have.4 Someone says the rail strike hasn't ended. It doesn't seem to have ended.5 Someone says it's a holiday tomorrow. You want to know who says this.6 Someone says there's been a terrible air disaster. You fear this is the case.7 Someone asks if the democrats will win the election. You don't expect they will.4.3D Context
Write: Put in one, any, it, they, them, or so.SPELLING CAN BE A PAIN!(^1) It'..... was late in the afternoon when Mr Fox asked his ten-year-olds if
(^2) would like to do a spelling test.
MR FOX:
LIZ:
MR FOX:
ANNIE:
(^3) 's quite an easy (^4) I'll say the words and
you'll spell^5 Write^6 in your exercise
books. If there are^7 words you can't spell, I'll write
(^8) on the blackboard. Do you like spelling, Liz?
I love^9
What about you, Annie?
I think^10 but I'm not sure.
Annie was quite late getting home from school that afternoon. Annie's
granddad was worried.
GRANDDAD: Why are you late, Annie?
ANNIE:^11 's because of rheumatism.
GRANDDAD: Only older people have rheumatism, Annie.
ANNIE: No, I haven't got^12 granddad. I just can't spell
. because of rheumatism