Fill the blanks, selecting appropriate words from the Choice Box.
SELECTION BOX:
appreciating,(gerund)
boasting,(gerund)
commercialising, (gerund)
delivering,(gerund)
existing,(present participle)
laughing,(present participle)
maintaining,(gerund)
making,(CTV))
putting, (gerund)
repeating, (present participle)
using,(gerund)
wooing, (gerund).
QUESTION BOX:
1- In composition, it is the art of ___ing ideas together in graceful and accurate prose; in speaking, it is the art of ___ing ideas with propriety, elegance, and force; or, in other words, it is the science of oratory - Locke .
2- The blind man is ___ing at the bald head(Persian ).
3- Happy is the ___ing that is not long in doing .,
4- The right __ ing of strength enhances its effectiveness.
5- Those critics who, in modern times, have the most thoughtfully analyzed the laws of aesthetic beauty, concur in ___ing that the real truthfulness of all works of imagination - sculpture, painting, written fiction - is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent the positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth - Bulwer - Lytton .
6- The Opposition is ___ing a mountain out of a molehill .
7- We are all of us more or less echoes, ____ing involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live - Joubert .
8- ___ has become a common trait among middle aged persons.
9- Every ___ing thing on this Earth is subject to change.
10- ____ting beauty is not vulgar; ____ ing beauty is.
SUGGESTED ANSWERS:1- delivering,2- laughing,3- wooing,4- using,5- maintaining,6- making,7- repeating,8- boasting,9- existing,10- appreciating, commercialising
