I am not sure whether writers of film-scripts feel comfortable or uncomfortable when they find that short words and short sentences, are not easy to fit in the context. Anyway, the context is the best guide to choose a short word or a long word, to use a short sentence or a long sentence.
QUIZ
Fill up the blanks, selecting appropriate words from the Choice Box.
SELECTION BOX:
distracting , frequenting , mademoiselle , Franciscans , unbelievable , arrangement , candlestick, celebrating , cleanliness , compensated , competition , contradiction , contraption , deceitfulness , developments , disappeared , disposition , embarrassing , extraordinary , fascinating , floundering , forgiveness , immediately , insufferable , magnificent , masterpiece , misinformed , obligations , performance , philanthropist , possessions , possibilities , practically , responsibilities , ruthlessness , sentimental , slaughtered.
QUESTION BOX: * She's really quite er,____ ANSWER .
* Is that such an____ request ANSWER .
* No, sir! I____ him ANSWER .
* If he is to become King, he must accept his ____ ANSWER .
* We're so looking forward, to____ the engagement to your own Spanish rose ANSWER .
* Yes, well, there have been, several new____ with regards to Spain ANSWER .
* I found it____ and dull ANSWER .
* Do not mock me, boy, for I am in a foul____ ANSWER .
* Sweetheart, you were born to privilege, and with that comes specific____ ANSWER .
REM: These are princely obligations. This type of obligations, we have even today. Obama's children, for example, cannot behave like commoners' children.
* You have been born to privilege, and with that come specific____ ANSWER .
REM:above
* I was born to privilege and with that come specific____ ANSWER .
REm:above.
* Luckily for you, Marguerite turned in a beautiful____ ANSWER .
* I shall need to know, who the____ is, every move he makes, his agenda, and any other titbits you might pick up ANSWER .
* When my daughter is Queen, perhaps we might come to a new____ ANSWER .
REM:Stepmother's dialog
* The Baroness and I have come to er, an____ ANSWER .
REM:Baroness, here refers to the stepmother of Cinderella.
* The man is____ ANSWER .
* You don't know how____ that is ANSWER .
* A woman would do____ anything, for the love of her daughter, Your Majesties ANSWER .
* I'm afraid, mademoiselle, you are a walking contradiction, and I find that rather____ ANSWER .
* Yet you make fun of those who would see it for its____ ANSWER .
* Where are the____ ANSWER .
* My husband's prize____ ANSWER .
* By royal decree, any man who sails must be____ ANSWER .
* She taught me that____ was next to godliness ANSWER .
* Well, is that not his flying____ ANSWER .
* Well, this is terribly____ ANSWER .
* I have it on good authority, that before your rather____ debut, the Prince was about to choose
Marguerite to be his bride ANSWER .
REM: Marguerite was Cinderella's step-sister.
* My wife thanks you for this fine garment,____ ANSWER .
* He seems to have____ again ANSWER .
* It's almost as absurd as a prince____ a servant who sleeps with pigs ANSWER .
* Where are the____ and the tapestries, and the silver? ANSWER .
* She (Cinderella) looks like a____ ANSWER .
* She was____ ANSWER .
* I'm a businessman, Danielle, not a____ ANSWER .
REM:Danielle is another name for Cinderella
* I couldn't have you around____ the Prince ANSWER .
* Actually, I came to beg your____ ANSWER .
* His Supreme Majesty, King Francis, requests an audience with the Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent, and her daughters____ ANSWER .
Pl. have a look at "manner-adverbial-phrases" : mcqgram. Click.
