Rephrasing /Sy&An Flashcards
01) In Japan you aren ́t supposed to eat food as you walk down the street.
» In Japan you had…
02) It was a mistake for me to spend so much money on records.
» I should…
03) Is it necessary for me to pay for my ticket now?
» Do I… ?
04) Please tell me how much luggage you let me take on the plane.
» Can you tell me how much luggage I am…
05) It isn ́t possible that her car has broken down again.
» Her car…
06) If you have a reserved seat it isn ́t necessary to stand on the train.
» You…
07) I ́m sure that you made a mistake when you added up the total.
» You…
08) Can you manage to get to the airport at 6.30 a.m.?
» Will you… ?
09) Why did you travel first class? It wasn ́t necessary, you know.
» You…
10) The ticket inspector didn ́t let us go onto the platform.
» We…
01) In Japan you had better not eat food as you walk down the street.
02) I should not have spent so much money on records.
03) Do I have to pay for my ticket now?
04) Can you tell me how much luggage I am allowed to take on the plane.
05) Her car can’t have broken down again.
06) You don’t need to stand on the train if you have a reserved seat.
07) You must have made a mistake when you added up the total.
08) Will you be able to get to the airport at 6.30 a.m.?
09) You shouldn’t have travelled first class.
10) We weren’t allowed to go onto the platform.
11) It’s a pity you didn’t tell us about it.
» I wish…
12) The heat was such that I nearly fainted.
» It was…
13) Is it possible to travel to London by coach?
» I wonder…
14) He’s getting someone to mend the windows.
» He’s having…
15) It started to rain at two o’clock.
» It has…
16) They made her hand over her passport.
» She was…
17) I thought it would be better than that.
» It wasn’t…
18) No one has ever discussed that question.
» That question…
19) We couldn’t go out because the weather was so bad.
» It was such…
20) Six years ago we started writing to each other.
» We have…
21) My brother and I both went to that school.
» I went to that school and so…
11) I wish you had told us about it
12) It was so hot that I nearly fainted
13) I wonder if it is possible to travel to London by coach.
14) He’s having his windows mended
15) It has been raining since two o’clock.
16) She was made to hand over her passport.
17) It wasn’t as good as I (had) thought
18) That question has never been discussed before
19) It was such a bad weather that we couldn’t go out
20) We have been writing to each other for six years
21) I went to that school and so did my brother
22) She and I had never been there before.
» Neither…
23) Someone must meet him at the railway station.
» He…
24) Someone stole my purse from my handbag.
» My purse…
25) Getting a good job doesn’t interest him.
» He…
26) She said to us: “Don’t be late”.
» She told…
27) The garden is too small to play football.
» The garden isn’t…
28)I often get up early.
» I am used…
29) When did you start working here?
» How long…
30) No one in the group is younger than her.
» She’s…
31) They made him wait for two hours.
» He was…
32) I must leave now or I will miss the bus.
» I will…
22) Neither she nor I had been there before
23) He must be met at the railway station
24) My purse was stolen from my handbag
25) He isn’t interested in getting a good job
26) She told us not to be late.
27) The garden isn’t big enough to play football
28) I am used to getting up early
29) How long have you been working here?
30) She’s the youngest in the group.
31) He was made to wait for two hours
32) I will miss the bus if I don’t leave now.
33) The police made the boat turn back.
» The boat…
34)I have never been to the ballet before.
» It’s…
35) The switch was too high for him to reach.
» He wasn’t tall…
36) We wanted to play the match this morning, but it was raining.
» If…
37) Last week the painter came to paint the walls
» We…
38) I left earlier in order to be able to catch the bus.
» (so that)…
39) She can’t come to the party! What a shame!
» I wish…
40) You won’t pass the exam unless you study harder
» If…
41) We will go to the cinema after lunch.
» We won’t go…
42)You must water these plants every two weeks.
» These plants…
43) They cancelled the match because it was raining
» (because of )…
33) The boat was made to turn back
34) It’s the first time I go to the ballet.
35) He wasn’t tall enough to reach the switch.
36) If it hadn’t been raining, we would have played the match this morning.
37) We had the walls painted last week
38) I left earlier so that I was able to catch the bus
39) I wish she came to the party
40) If you don’t study harder you won’t pass the exam
41) We won’t go to the cinema before lunch
42) These plants must be watered every two weeks
43) They cancelled the match because of the rain
44) People thought that the man had died
» It…
The man…
45)Perhaps they’ve forgotten about the meeting
» (must)…
46)I don’t really want to have lunch now.
» I’d rather…
47) The men robbed a lot of money from the bank.
» A great…
48) I’d like to be a millionaire.
» I wish…
49) He has lived in this house all his life
» (since)…
50) I’m sure he has gone to the beach
» (must)…
51) “Don’t go”, the man said to us.
» The man…
52) He can’t make friends because of his bad temper.
» His bad temper…
It was thought that the man had died / The man was thought to have died They must have forgotten about the meeting
I’d rather not have lunch now
A great amount of money was stolen from the bank
I wish I were a millionaire
He has lived in this house since he was born
He must have gone to the beach
The man told us not to go
His bad temper makes it difficult for him to make friends / His bad
temper stops him from making friends
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>> about approximately >> abstract summary >> to accomplish to achieve to accumulate to build up >> to administer to manage >> to admit to confess >> almost nearly >> animated lively >> to annoy to irritate, to bother >> to answer to reply anyway besides apparent obvious >> to appear to seem applicable relevant >> appreciable considerable ardour passion >> arise occur aromatic fragrant >> to arrive to reach artful crafty association organization >> to assure to guarantee >> attractive appealing >> away absent >> awful terrible
B
backbone spine >> backside behind, bottom >> bad (not good) poor, naughty >> ballot poll to bear on sth. to affect >> to beat to defeat becoming fitting >> to begin to start >> to behave to act believable plausible >> belly stomach >> bendy flexible beneficiant generous beneficial favourable bid tender >> bizarre weird blameless innocent bloodbath massacre bloodless cold >> branch department >> brave courageous to bring sth. back to reintroduce to bring sth. on to cause >> to bring sb. up to raise >> brow forehead bum backside, behind, bottom >> business commerce, trade >> busy (telephone) engaged
C
>> candy sweet to categorize >> to categorise (BE) to classify >> charter constitution cheesy corny, tacky >> chiefly mainly >> choosy picky >> to chop to cut chorus refrain >> citation quotation >> to cite to quote >> class lesson, course clerk receptionist >> clever intelligent >> to close to shut >> coiffure hairstyle >> to collapse to break down >> to collect to gather >> comfort consolation >> comic comedian commencement graduation >> complete total >> completely totally >> concord harmony >> to condemn to sentence confederate accomplice to confine to restrict >> conflict clash >> to conform to comply >> to confuse to mix up >> to connect to associate, to put through (telephone) >> considerate thoughtful constancy fidelity >> constant fixed constitution structure construction (lit.) interpretation >> to consult to refer to >> contemporary modern continuous continual >> contrary opposite >> convention conference >> to convey to communicate >> to cope to manage >> correct right >> couch sofa crook criminal crusade campaign >> cube dice >> curative healing curler roller cussed stubborn
D
dash sprint >> daybreak dawn >> deceptive misleading decontrol deregulate dedicated committed >> to deduce to infer >> defective faulty >> deliberate planned >> deliberately intentionally >> delicate fragile to demostrate to protest to denationalize to denationalise (BE )to privatize denims jeans >> to denote to indicate, to represent to deprave to corrupt depraved wicked, evil to desert to abandon deserted abandoned >> destiny fate detached indifferent devil satan dicy risky >> to differentiate to distinguish >> to diminish to decrease disadvantaged deprived >> disagreeable unpleasant >> to disappear to vanish >> disaster catastrophe to disclaim to deny >> to disclose to reveal >> discount reduction disgrace shame domesticate cultivate >> dossier file dubious doubtful >> dull (person) stupid
E
>> eager keen >> earth soil >> ecocnomic profitable >> egocentric selfish >> to elevate to raise, to promote >> to emphasize to stress >> to encounter to come across >> enormous huge, immense >> to enquire to investigate >> equity fairness >> especially particularly >> essential fundamental >> to establish to set up >> to evaluate to assess >> everlasting eternal >> exactly precisely >> except apart from >> to expire to run out >> to explode to blow up >> extra additional
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>> to fabricate to manufacture >> famous famed, renowned >> fanatic enthusiast >> fantastic great, brilliant >> to float to drift >> fool idiot >> foolish silly >> forehead brow >> to foretell to predict >> formerly previously >> fortunate lucky foxy cunning foyer lobby >> fragrance perfume >> French dressing vinaigrette >> to function to operate
G
>> garbage rubbish garbage can (AE) trashcan (AE) >> gay homosexual >> to glitter to sparkle >> to grab to seize >> grasping greedy >> gratis free of charge >> gratuity tip gravestone headstone >> to grouse to grumble >> gut intestine
H
>> hall corridor >> to hand sth. out to distribute >> handsome good-looking >> hang-out haunt >> happily fortunately >> hard tough hashish cannabis >> to hawk to peddle >> to hazard to endanger >> hearsay rumour >> hermetic airtight >> highbrow intellectual >> hint trace, tip >> hole gap >> home domestic >> homicide murder >> housebreaking burglary >> hunger starvation >> to hurry to rush >> hypothesis speculation
I
>> idler loafer >> if whether >> to ignore to disregard illiberal intolerant >> to illuminate to clarify; to light up >> to illustrate to demonstrate >> to imagine to suppose, to assume >> to imitate to mimic >> immediate instant >> immobile motionless >> immoderate excessive >> immodest conceited >> to impact to affect >> impartial neutral >> impasse deadlock >> impassive emotionless >> to impeach to question >> impediment obstacle >> imperative vital >> impolite rude >> incidentally by the way >> inconsiderate thoughtless >> indisputable indeniable >> infamous notorious >> infantile childish >> to infect to contaminate >> inflexible rigid inflow influx >> informal casual >> infrequent rare >> inheritor heir >> innocent harmless >> insolvent bancrupt >> to inspect to examine >> instinct intuition >> instructions directions >> insufferable unbearable >> insufficient inadequate >> insupportable intolerable >> insurgent rebel >> intellectual mental >> to intend to mean >> to intensify to heighten >> interplay interaction >> inventory stock >> invoice bill to ivolve to entail >> isolated loney
