Grammar World Context 1. Structural types

Have a look at the dialogue and explore any unfamiliar words . Press the word of your interest. The selected word appears with a black background. Click on the word to look it up in an online dictionary that you have to choose in the window on the right. Choose the languages to translate (from-to) and the dictionary. Remember, you may switch the dictionaries at any time, you may click on the listening icon next to the word and listen to how it is pronounced.

Task 1. Picture the following situation: two people - Sarah and Julia - have recently got acquainted and now are trying to get to know each other better by having a light conversation. Logically complete the missing utterances, following the necessary instructions in brackets, using the given structural types of sentences. The utterance may include several sentences of the same type.

Julia: You travel a lot? 
Sarah: ... (two-member, elliptical). But I haven’t been back overseas since we got married. Larry does all the travelling now.
Julia: How did you two meet? 
Sarah: ... (two-member, elliptical). Our fathers used to work together. He asked me out, and that was that.
Julia: ... (two-member, complete, interrogative).
Sarah: ... (two-member, complete, unexpanded). Two months later he asked me to marry him and I said yes. My parents were delighted. 
Julia: How so? 
Sarah: ... (one-member, expanded).
Julia: I want you to tell me about your son. 
Sarah: ... (composite, complex).