Shift of predicate

1. Organisers say the schemes may be more common than people realise, because they are only spoken of behind closed doors.

2. Participants are reluctant to advertise that they have large sums of cash on the property for fear that they might get burgled, while organisers are scared of what the government and financial institutions would do if the schemes ever came to light.

3. Those pilots have become increasingly frustrated with American Airlines management and has been in and out of contract negotiations with the company.

4. They are also the supporters of reducing subsidies for ethnic minorities; they are concerned about the Jewish and the Slovaks living in Hungary.

5. If the situation in Afghanistan continues to deteriorate and the Talibs strengthen their positions, it will put the country’s national security under the threat

Grammatical transformations

1. The fleet of buses marked “for women only” has received a great deal of support.

2. On its return journey the spacecraft must be accelerated to some 25.000 m.p.h. for it to enter the earth’s orbit.

3. The Justice Party in Turkey has taken part in a coalition, and on another occasion its leader has been asked – but failed – to form a government.

4. The stories we tell inside our own heads, attempting to make sense of the world and of our place within it.

5. On Monday, a report in the New York Post detailed how a loose row of seats on a Miami bound flight caused an emergency landing at the city's Kennedy airport.


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