Grammar World Context 8 (Verb Complementation)

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 necessary languages 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 - Barbara and Alice - are sitting in the park discussing their previous relationaships. Gradually, the conversation gets quite philosophical and Barbara starts contemplating over her life in general. Complete the dialogue with the necessary sentences following the instructions in the brackets, using different types of verbs. 

Barbara: I once ... (intransitive) discussing Elgar for three hours.

Alice: Who with?

Barbara: Oh, just a friend. Jennifer. This was our haunt. We were quite chummy for a while, but... poor thing, she ... (dilexical) terrible depression. I tried to help, but she rather unraveled. She ... (copular) alarmingly deluded.

Alice: Did she go to hospital?

Barbara: No, she got a job in Stoke.

Alice: When was this?

Barbara: Last summer. Though I feel I should have ... (monotransitive).

Alice: I'm sure she knows you did your best.

Barbara: Such a sensitive person. One conceals it, of course. People languish for years with partners who ... (copular). We want so much to believe that we've found our other. Takes courage to recognize the real as opposed to the convenient. When I was young, I ... (ditransitive). I dreamt I'd be someone to be reckoned with, you know, in the world. But one learns one's scale. I ... (dilexical) such a dread of ending my days alone.

Alice: We all do.

Barbara: But recently I ... (ditransitive). Am I wrong?

Alice: No. No. (hugging, holding hands)