Writing Better English for ESL Learners

wasn’t sure he had heard correctly. “

?” he asked, looking around. But there was no answer. Lara

stood silently. Then she

and said in a whisper, “I

love you, too, Victor.”

The joke was on.

Exercise 4.6The Worst Day of My Life.The story line: A man is driving to visit
some friends in another city. But he has many problems. His car stalls. It starts
to rain. He gets splattered with mud. And he loses his money. Worst of all, his
friends are not at home.

Everyone has a bad day now and then. But I had the worst. It hap-

pened while I was visiting.

They were old friends of mine and had just moved to

. I loved spending time in a big city and

was looking forward to.

I left my hometown around

and arrived around dusk.

Before I found my friends’ new house, my car

. I thought I was out of gas, but
. I wasn’t sure what to do. I finally decided

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