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5. It is now thought…:Now people think… Teach the students to learn to use this sentence pattern. Similarly: It is known that … It has been found that … 6. look into: examine; find out facts about Examples: The President said he was looking into the possibility of setting up a new library. 7. difffer from: be different from Examples: My answer to this arithmetic problem differs from yours. The twin brothers differ from each other in their interests. 5. She…when on into the house with sharp words for my father.: Having failed to comfort her son, the mother felt an agony of frustration and then she took it out on the father. We can almost imagine her saying something like this: “Really! You’ve messed things up this time. What a crazy idea anyway. You should have known it won’t work. Now look at the boy! Are you happy now? You’ve ruined our Christmas!” The word “sharp” means “harsh” or “severe”, and “for” indicates whom her sharp words were directed to. 6. I was wronged, I was hurt.: All my sisters had been given gifts, all sorts of wonderful gifts, while I had got nothing—I had been forgotten. I was treated shamefully, so much so that I could not help feeling hurt. 7. …I saw his face, and I think I can see now the anxiety upon it, the worried impatience.: I saw his face, and looking back now, I still remember his facial expression– he looked very anxious and worried as if he was expecting something that should have some. 8. For such a horse as that I would have given anything.: I would have been willing to give up all I had in exchange for a horse like that. such…as: of the same kind; of that kind Examples: I said no such thing as that. Metals are such things as iron, silver, and gold. 9. impossible hopes.: hopes that can never be realized; hopes for impossible things 10. Too much.: That was too much for me to put up with. I wanted a pony so much that I even declined th