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Problem: Students often have trouble using it both in terms of grammar and sense.
Remedy: Think of "enable" as "to make it possible for".
When you've rewritten the sentences, check further down the page to see if they're the same as the suggested answers..............
The structure is “enable + object + full infinitive”. So:
1) The city council is going to hold a competition which will
enable architects to show off………
Or
1) The city council is going to hold a competition enabling.....
Graffiti wall art, in Brighton. Where is Brighton? (Clue: It's not in the north. It's not inland.)
Answer:
It's on the south coast of England.
Language note:
on the south coast of.... (It's beside the sea.)
in the north of.... (It's inside the country. Example: Newcastle is in the north of England.)
north of.... (It's outside the country. Example: Scotland is north of England.)
Do you get it?
A married couple, who had bought a new house, decided to convert the basement into a games room for their teenage sons. They surveyed the room and space and saw that there was a huge fireplace and chimney standing against one wall. “That’ll have to go,” said the man. “It’s taking up far too much space”.
“Yes,” agreed his wife. “You’ll have to knock it all down”The next morning the house was filled with a deafening ‘bang, bang, bang’ as he swung his huge hammer and knocked down the fireplace and chimney. Suddenly the wife heard a horrific scream come from down below. Running down the basement stairs she threw open the door and discovered her husband standing there, white as a sheet, in front of the demolished chimney. And there, sitting in a pile of bricks where the fireplace had been, was a skeleton.
“It was inside the chimney,” he gasped. “It just sort of… fell out!”
“Oh my goodness,” his wife responded. “How awful. What’s that around it’s neck?” She asked, pointing at the gold medallion that hung there, suspended from a blue ribbon.
“It’s some sort of medal,” responded the man, bending over the skeleton. “And it says……” he told her as he wiped away the dirt from the medal’s surface, “…… it says…… ‘National Hide and Seek Champion, 1957’.”
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Hide and seek - a game where people hide and another person tries to find them. The winner is the one who can stay undiscovered for the longest time.