← go back
5 No wrong numbers
Mr James Scott
has
a garage
in Silbury
→
and
now
he
has
just
bought
another garage
in Pinhurst
.
→
Pinhurst
is
only five miles from Silbury
,
→
but
Mr Scott
cannot
get
a telephone for his new garage
,
→
so
he
has
just
bought
twelve pigeons
.
→
Yesterday
,
a pigeon
carried
the first message
from Pinhurst to Silbury
.
→
The bird
covered
the distance
in three minutes
.
→
Up to now
,
Mr Scott
has
sent
a great many requests for spare parts and other urgent messages
from one garage to the other
.
→
In this way
,
he
has
begun
his own private 'telephone' service
.
→
add
*time marker
?()
c(conjunction)
i(interjection)
s(subject)
j(jump word)
n(not)
y(yellow infinitive)
xv(extension of the verb)
v(orange verb)
xs(extension of the subject)
o(object)
m(adverb of manner)
p(adverb of place)
t(adverb of time)