- intermediate-81
English Grammar / Incomplete Sentences / Intermediate level # 81 (Answer Keys)
Charlie's Knees
A1 Charlie always thought he was the bee's knees because he had a very good opinion of himself.
answer: (c) bee's
A2 Even when he won the wobbly knees competition at a holiday camp he wasn't ashamed — he just loved it.
answer: (b) wobbly
A3 He'd learnt to think he was important from an early age at his mother's knee.
answer: (d) at
A4 His father told him he was special as he dandled him on his knee.
answer: (b) on
A5 Then he met Maria as a grown up and fell in love as a sort of knee jerk reaction almost without thinking.
answer: (c) jerk
A6 You see he'd known her once as a small child when he was knee high to a grasshopper and now they met as
adults.
answer: (a) high
A7 They met at a mutual friend's party where everyone was having a great time in a kind of knees up.
answer: (d) up
A8 Shortly after that he went down on one knee and proposed marriage to her and she accepted him.
answer: (b) went
A9 After they were married, Charlie had to work very hard and he was always knee deep in decorating and
painting the house.
answer: (a) deep
A10 What poor Charlie didn't know before was that Maria loved telling others what to do and so he had to do as he
was told and bend the knee.
answer: (d) bend
