Grammar World Context 5. The Subject

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 friends - Jenny and Jim met up after a little altercation. Jim understands his fault: he abandoned Jenny on her ow birthday and and left to hang out with another friend of his. Now he is trying to make it up. Complete the following fialogue with the necessary sentences following the instructions in the brackets. 

Jenny: I am not talking to you.

Jim: What did I do? ... (structure with impersonal it)

Jenny: Yeah, I get it. You’ve had a shit year, but it is not cool to so fragrantly disrespect us. ... (clausal subject)

Jim: What are we talking about?

Jenny: You abandoned us last night. ... (phrasal subject) How do you think it’s supposed to make us feel?

Jim: Alright, I am sorry. ... (structure with demostrative it)

Jenny: On my birthday. ... (complex subject + introductory it)

Jim: I am really sorry. I am serious. You are stressed. ... (structure with emphatic it)

Jenny: I need to make a new feature and there’s not enough days in the week.

Jim: Why don’t I take this one? Okay? Consider you load oficcially lightened. ... (structure with personal it)