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The Fall of the House of Usher

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Follow formal descriptions and relative clauses.

Listen to each sentence and write what you hear.

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Words to know

owner
The person who owns something.
heaven
In many religions, a place of goodness after death.
noticeable
Easy to see.

Answer key

  1. This was a question to which I could find no answer.“To which” is a formal relative pronoun: no answer to that question.
  2. Its owner was named Roderick Usher.“Was named” is passive.
  3. It was not the air of heaven.Heaven is a place of goodness; the air there felt strange and bad.
  4. The most noticeable thing about it seemed to be its great age.“The most noticeable” is a superlative. “Seemed to be” describes how it appeared.
  5. I rode over a short bridge to the house.“Rode” is the past of “ride”.

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