SPEECH PATTERNS

i. What I really lackedwas experience.

What he suffered from was inferiority complex. What we need is love and money.

2. The most powerful ideas are the onesyou absorb indirectly. The most interesting books are the ones you haven't read yet. The most challenging roles are the ones the actor hasn't got yet.

3. Little did she guess whathe had on his mind.

Little did they realize why he was being so nice to them. Little did we know what the future had in store for us.

Phrases and Word Combinations

to come first (second) to bring smth up to date to embrace functions, (policy etc.) to date back

ill-informed (ill-tuned, ill-bred etc.) to become addicted to to come into existence far beyond the scope